They don’t care or see that. They want to ban these guns and since it’s happened before it makes it easier. Luckily they keep adding to many things to the bill and it fails in Senate. If they went after just AR and AK weapons they may get it done. Hoping they don’t. I guess manufacturers could just change the name of the gun. This should never happen, we should be able to own any gun we want. I think the key is being responsible gun owners. What drives me nuts is that they keep on with this background check and acting like there isn’t one in place already.
When similar bans were instituted on certain weapons in the past, the crime rate remained virtually unchanged, as rarely are the designated firearms even USED in a criminal enterprise. Criminals just went to other sorts of “persuasion” to assert themselves in the commission of a crime, and as long as nobody was willing to prosecute them, it was essentially a “win-win” for those criminals.
The failure to prosecute and convict the perpetrators of criminal activity is a far greater factor in the crime rate than the instrument used to commit the crime. Crime is in the head of the criminal, not in the instrument used. Get their heads straight, maybe by a period of confinement and very restricted access to the rest of society, and maybe, just maybe, the attractiveness of criminal behavior shall diminish. But first someone must get to the minds and change them. And for that they must be caught, convicted and sent to some kind of EFFECTUAL facility, for behavior correction.
Whatever that takes.