• Fondots@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I think we basically need to take all of our gun laws totally back to the drawing board and start fresh. They’re full of all kinds of goofy definitions and loopholes.

      One of my favorites is that, for the most part, muzzleloaders are not considered firearms. Literally the kinds of weapons we had around when the 2nd amendment was penned, and we count them in a different category that the weapons people bend over backwards trying to defend based on their definition of the 2nd amendment.

      Don’t anyone get me wrong, I’m overall mostly pro-gun, wouldn’t describe myself as a fundementalist exactly, but while there’s a lot of gun control measures I’d like to see implemented or expanded there’s also plenty of others I’d like to see rolled back to various degrees. Mostly though, what I want is for our laws to make sense, and a lot of them really don’t.

    • theyoyomaster@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      I mean, a machine gun is a legal term that they do not meet the definition of, so there’s that.

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        2 years ago

        Ya, it just does functionally the exact same thing. Totally different and logical to allow it.

        • theyoyomaster@lemmy.worldOP
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          2 years ago

          Any modern gun can functionally do the exact same thing with a beltloop, stick or just your finger. The difference is that a machine gun is actually a specific and different function from this that does it automatically for you.