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<blockquote data-quote="wariya" data-source="post: 3258689" data-attributes="member: 160199">Man arrested for 2x4 labeled &quot;High Powered Rifle&quot;The problem I have with the law is not the banning of high-capacity magazines, but the fact that the law is built primarily around a 120 &quot;specifically banned&quot; models list and a 900-model &quot;specifically allowed&quot; models list.&nbsp; If a rule (like Feinstein&#039;s rule) that requires 900+ models to be excepted from the rule, there&#039;s something fundamentally wrong with the way the rule itself is crafted. I also have a problem with the fact taht this is re-adopting the infamous &quot;military characteristics&quot; list of the AWB (which made cosmetic differences illegal).&nbsp; Pistol grips and accessory rails don&#039;t kill people.&nbsp; If the Aurora shooter had had six-round magazines instead of a 100-round drum magazine, it would have made a difference.&nbsp; If he had had a Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle fed by a 100-round drum instead of an AR-15 fed by a 100-round drum, no, it wouldn&#039;t have made a lick of difference...so why focus on the ergonomic differences between the Mini-14 Ranch Rifle and the AR-15?&nbsp; Yet the bulk of Feinstein&#039;s law is based on trying to separate the AR-15s from the Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifles because the AR-15 basically looks scarier.The only part of Feinstein&#039;s law that I think would be effective is the ban on high-capacity magazines.&nbsp; But if we&#039;re giong to ban them, we need to ban them outright (perhaps through a mandatory buy-back program) instead of including the grandfather clause because there are so many in circulation that the grandfather clause emasculates the ban.&nbsp; So even the one part of the law that actually might make a difference is totally neutered.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wariya, post: 3258689, member: 160199"] [b]Man arrested for 2x4 labeled "High Powered Rifle"[/b] The problem I have with the law is not the banning of high-capacity magazines, but the fact that the law is built primarily around a 120 "specifically banned" models list and a 900-model "specifically allowed" models list. If a rule (like Feinstein's rule) that requires 900+ models to be excepted from the rule, there's something fundamentally wrong with the way the rule itself is crafted. I also have a problem with the fact taht this is re-adopting the infamous "military characteristics" list of the AWB (which made cosmetic differences illegal). Pistol grips and accessory rails don't kill people. If the Aurora shooter had had six-round magazines instead of a 100-round drum magazine, it would have made a difference. If he had had a Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle fed by a 100-round drum instead of an AR-15 fed by a 100-round drum, no, it wouldn't have made a lick of difference...so why focus on the ergonomic differences between the Mini-14 Ranch Rifle and the AR-15? Yet the bulk of Feinstein's law is based on trying to separate the AR-15s from the Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifles because the AR-15 basically looks scarier. The only part of Feinstein's law that I think would be effective is the ban on high-capacity magazines. But if we're giong to ban them, we need to ban them outright (perhaps through a mandatory buy-back program) instead of including the grandfather clause because there are so many in circulation that the grandfather clause emasculates the ban. So even the one part of the law that actually might make a difference is totally neutered. [/QUOTE]

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