For example, an assault weapon use to be a fully automatic military firearm. Now most people think it is any rifle that “looks like a military rifle regardless of caliber or action/function. Actually a Washington State Initiative funded by out of state money redefined “assault weapon” to be any semi-automatic rifle regardless of caliber or what it looks like.
While Ted was “correct” gun control activists are all about illusion and emotion, not facts or truth.
Terms like “Saturday Night Special” and “cop-killer bullets”, for example.