That's good.
If we have this type of weapon readily available for sale within the United States, it seems to me that it would make it that much easier for a terrorist group to infiltrate the country unarmed, and then acquire the necessary tools to carry out an attack.
If I'm a terrorist and want to use a gun attack, I'd be buying up pump action shotguns and 30-06 deer rifles. Those are much more powerful than so called assault weapons, which usually use .223 bullets.
Think of the attack at El Al counter in LA...now have a dozen guys there instead of one...and arm them with machine guns.
Machine Guns(or submachine guns) are not covered at all by so called assault weapons ban. Assault RIFLES are submachine guns. Those are different than 'assault weapons'. Machine guns are legal with a class III. If you have one, you can get an MP5. These so called assault weapons have nothing to do with machine guns at all.
Preserving the assault weapons ban makes it just that much harder for terrorists to obtain tools of the trade
No it doesn't.
Not quite. Submachine guns fire pistol catridges, battle rifles fire full power catridges and assault rifles fire intermediate power catridges, such as the 5.56X45, 5.45x39 and 7.62x39 (and the old 7.92Kurtz that the Original Assault Rifle fired) The M-2 Carbine is something of a special case, since it's catridge is less powerfull than some pistol catridges, and slightly more than others, but is not a pistol catridge per se, although derived from one. Whatever an M-2 is, it's a hoot to shoot.