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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIt also goes to show how laws made during the moral panic don’t go away even decades after that panic fades.
This is often in mind when responsible gun owners are critical of more gun laws. The govt won’t go “that was silly of us here’s your freedom back” even if the law had zero positive effect
Kaboom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
For example, short barrelled rifles are still heavily regulated. Pistols aren’t nearly as regulated.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes for those that don’t know any rifle with a barrel length less than 16 inches needs to have a buch of extra paperwork and a tax stamp to the govt to register it as a “short barreled rifle” or it is a weapons related felony.
The most basic standard rifle of the US military, the M4, used a 14.5 inch barrel. Even if everything else was legal for the average citizen to own (semi auto only) it is considered a scary short barreled rifle by law. But add an extra 1.5 inches and it’s fine.