Romney gave the perfect reply on that gotcha question.
He is the only politician I have ever seen differentiate between semi automatic and automatic weapons on the national stage, and he called the President out on his lie that automatic weapons were used on a daily basis in crimes and killings.
Automatic weapons(machine guns) ARE illegal unless you have the proper license. Automatic weapon production for normal civilian transferable purposes was banned in 1986 and all of the machine guns currently in civilian hands are either grandfathered in as being owned prior to the ban or are in the hands of dealers for demonstration purposes for Law Enforcement or Military sales.If you are in possession of an unregistered machine gun or you do have the proper ownership license you be a guest of the Federal Government on the Felony Farm for about 10 years.
IN THE SAME OBAMA EXPLICITLY STATED HE WAS FOR A NEW ASSAULT WEAPON BAN.
ROMNEY ALL THE WAY
Yes, exactly.
The impression the left would like to leave with ‘Low-information’ voters is that Machine guns are legal and that (as Bill O’Reilly implied once) – you can stroll into a gun show and buy one anytime you want no questions asked.
We know that really isn’t the case, but for ‘Low-information’ voters, they think that there are people running around with machine guns – and their ‘Low-information’ emotional reaction is to put a stop to it.
This is the same type of emotional response they want to get over Scary-Looking weapons (so-called ‘Assault Weapons’)
Compare Guns sold during the AWB ban period and Pre – or – Post ban weapons – they are effectively the same guns except for cosmetic items like flash hiders and bayonet lugs.
Those scary looking features don’t make a bit of difference in the workings of the gun, but the Left would like you to believe that banning those items bans those guns – that isn’t the case.
If fact, during the ban that was one of the things the left whined about that their vaunted ban didn’t do as advertised, but merely changed the look of some guns.