Can I join ya? I watched and understood the 5 round comment right off. Most states already have a 5 round max for a hunting weapon. THREE shells max for a shotgun. Nobody has raise a peep about these rules.
OTOH, I'm not sure about the assault weapon explanation. It seems to me like more of a CYA than truth.
His speech was a bit blurry, but I got the definite impression that he does not care for semiautos with mags in civilian hands.
He prefaced his statement by saying that the issue was something that he and his buds in NRA had discussed at length, then went on about how assault weapons don’t belong in the general population.