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"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts, Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen's groups and gun safety advocates. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."

First: "assault weapons" used to be categorized as fully automatic - machine guns...which have needed a major permit to own for decades. The term has been distorted.

Secondly: like most in California, people confuse machine guns with their similar looking semi-auto (one squeeze; one shot) weapons. CA has outlawed many semi-automatics just because they have the configuration of a fully auto, but allow other semi's.

Thirdly, and most important: a simple .38 revolver or a 9mm can and IS used to "hunt down and kill people". It happens almost every day in the inner-cities. Mostly, the gangsters use 9mm, but .38 revolvers are still easier and cheaper to obtain. The pansy gun idiots don't realized how easy it is to eject the mandatory (CA) 10 round magazine and insert another for a 9mm. The way 9's were built, with the slide going back once the mag is empty, tells anyone holding it's time to re-load (unlike the stupid movies where they just pull the trigger and click after click and realize it's empty).

It takes a couple/few seconds to re-load a 9. Sheesh, even a novice could do it, once they see the slide back. So the bad guy obeys the law (as if) and only bring 10 round mags? Okay. Guess they won't bring more mags in the pocket. Right?

Fourth: a Garand M-1 with a clip can fire multiple rounds is also a hunter/killer that could be use to ... you get the point.

Fifth: THE most deadliest weapon is a simple shotgun, depending on the gauge and circumstances. Oops, probably shouldn't have let BATFE know that. 12 gauge and OO shot will be next on their list.

The "assault weapons" debate is built on what the unknowing paranoid believe to be machine guns. They know NO difference between fully automatic and semi-automatic. Why is this never the point of debate? Hell, even a bolt-action can be used with little practice to "hunt down and kill people". This can gotten beyond ignorant.