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Ok, let's think for a moment, I know that's asking a lot of you, but lets
accept the S&W makes assault weapons?
SO WHAT?
Just because you created a madeup term and says that it applies to guns with
particular cosmetic features does NOT change the gun into something else.
It's like slapping a sticker on a ford pinto and claiming that makes it
"race car".
Indeed, I bet you can't tell me the functional difference between an AR-15
which was specifically declared an assault weapon under federal law and a
Mini-14 which was specifically declared was NOT an assault weapon under the
same law.
Indeed, are you aware that I can take a .22 rifle which is NOT an assault
weapon, and make it into one simply by changing the stock?
How does THAT alter the nature of the gun AT ALL?
Oh, but then the whole assault weapons thing isn't about reality,
objectivity, or even intelligence. It's about banning guns because of how
they 'look'.