"From my Cold Dead Hands!" (Charton Heston)
By the way, anyone who invaded my home would not face my "So-called 'assault rifle', but a good-old S&W (pre-kneepad) .44 magnum.
It's very tiresome to hear the liberal idiots go on and on about the dangers of "assault weapons" when you realize that a shotgun is a better weapon at close range.
The shotguns will follow in due course.
That's why they are incrementally adding various shotguns to the category of "assault weapons". However they are also beginning to twig to the notion that the real threat to their power, not mention their persons, lies not in shotguns, nor even so called "assault weapons", but rather various sorts of optics equiped high powered and highy accurate rifles. What we might call a "deer rifle" (For mule deer anyway) or an "Elk Gun", they will call a "sniper rifle". Your grandads, or great granddad's deer rifle will morph into a deadly sniper rifle, which only terrorists would want to own.