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Message: <blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 945723" data-attributes="member: 14668">I normally agree with a lot of what you say, but your statements about the assault weapons ban are completely and totally devoid of any factual basis.The "assault weapons ban" was nothing more than warm and fuzzy feel-good legislation that banned certain cosmetic features on certain firearms, as well as banning the manufacture or importation of high-capacity magazines. It had nothing to do with crime prevention and it certainly had nothing to do with patent protection. The guns themselves never changed, they simply modified the magazines to hold less bullets and they removed certain combinations of features such as pistol grips, bayonet lugs, and flash suppressors on certain guns.The people who wrote the legislation didnt know anything at all about guns. They were just trying to ban things that looked scary to them.</blockquote>