re: 70% of Young Americans think we should be allowed to own Assualt Rifles

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that were supposed to be banned were still legally available for purchase.

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They were grandfathered in.

The "conforming" weapons ("post-ban" designs) replaced the birdcage "flash suppressor" with AK-style or Y-comp muzzle brakes.

Adjustable stocks were replaced with thumbhole or permanently pinned stocks.

Bayonet lugs were removed.

The point is - those hoops shouldn't have been put there. The ludicrous (arbitrary and nebulous) nature of it was exposed, but they never backed down - the only reason is isn't the law of the land now was that in response to that very silly law, the House went Republican. And the only reason they didn't do it again in 2009 or 2010 was that Democrats from red states were shaking in their boots from 1994. Heck, they tried it again after Newton.

Thank G-d those efforts to renew have failed.

But they haven't given up - by any stretch. And despite what Biden says, they want the pistols, revolvers, rifles AND shotguns.

They might (with political patronage, of course) allow their friends to keep shotguns locked up at a gun club for skeet purposes - but that will be it - if they ever get their way on guns. But the rest of them? Forget it. Cut up for scrap.

Don't believe me? Check with the Australian Rifle Association - and that happened, virtually overnight - a nation with gun laws similar to ours went to a U.K. model in about 18 months.