---and Ruger attempted to do some legislative trading by supporting the large cap mag ban at one point , also---
Bill Ruger didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. It's the same as when a Freeper says, "I don't know why they are after the Barrett .50 when my [fill in the blank] does as much damage". He didn't understand why they wanted to ban the guns when all they had to do was ban the high capacity magazines.
Bottom line is the libs wrote the law to ban military guns and the Mini-14 didn't look like a current military weapon no more than the M1A did.