Some constituencies pretend to see "arms" as being all inclusive for the purpose of scaring more voters into supporting "gun control," and others are mad enough to actually worship Ayn Rand and company (anarchists, many of whom are leftists in disguise).
"Do you support the current Assault Weapons Ban?"
Of course not. Semi-automatic rifles are no threat to civilian peace (although fatherlessness is). They're good hunting, marksmanship and rural home defense tools. But leftie thinks semi-autos are a threat, and a few leftie insurgents pretending to be conservatives can best defeat our 2nd Amendment rights by promoting the legalized home use of any and all weapons (e.g., chain guns, nukes) by omission of limits, to scare a lot of voters into supporting more "gun control" (although all of us who have been in combat specialties for our US military see "guns" being something different from small rifles and pistols, banning of yet another, more personal kind of "gun" being a scarier matter altogether).