-----Original Message----- From: Ben Kelley
<snip> Something, that wouldn't be possible to do legally today. Because > the assault weapons still cannot be fully automatic. They also may Not to nitpick, But all "assault weapons" are select fire, selectable between fully automatic/or bursts and semiautomatic. What we call the assault weapons as in the ban are not really assault weapons, but nearly a bastardization of the true meaning, to scare soccer moms.
Not true. I had the opportunity to purchase a .44 "semi-automatic" rifle a few years back. Totally legally, before the Clinton ban. This is called a semi-automatic, but in reality is a .44 sub-machine gun. A simple modification turns this semi-automatic "assault weapon" into a fully automatic mass-people-killing "assault weapon". The modification is and almost always has been illegal, but lots of people do it anyway, I'm sure. I'm sorry, but I really see no reason for these weapons to be legal. I have a gun and use it to kill food with (food <> human beings), and Shooting a deer with an assault weapon pretty much nullifies the food quality part of it, not to mention the fur/leather quality.