montecresto1: montecresto1: What’s most odd is that you guys oppose those measures with the notable exception of the assault weapons.

When I think about gun rights, I am not a hardliner. There are some forms of acceptable restrictions. So for me, it’s a question of how much restriction is acceptable. The answer comes back to how much of a weapon do we need to protect ourselves from the government and foreign invasions. The answer comes to the semi-automatic. Semi-automatics would allow the people to storm storages to get “the good stuff”. Semi-automatics are quite accurate and are ammo efficient. They can also shoot relatively long distances.

Now trying to limit people from being able to use these reasonable semi-automatics down to simple hunting rifles, that’s going too far. People need to be able to shoot multiple times in fairly quick succession accurately and efficiently. Pistols don’t do the job, either, because you need to get so close. Fully-automatics are probably worse than semi-automatics. So that’s where I stand.