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Free idea for someone who cares about gun control: only assault rifles should be legal, handguns should be outlawed.

I’m 100% sure I’ve heard this before, not sure from who though. An “assault rifle” isn’t really a thing, but, yeah. Outlawing handguns but not rifles doesn’t seem like an altogether bad idea if you’re coming at it from a “reduce gun death but also respect the spirit of the second amendment” angle.

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Uh don’t look now but with the US civilian carbine boom proceeding on parallel “legally a pistol” and “short-barreled rifle” tracks the handgun/assault rifle binary isn’t looking too hot these days

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