Some Pistol!

This assault weapon (Ruger AR-556), which would be classified as a sub-machine gun if it were fully automatic instead of just semi-automatic, was purchased by the Boulder supermarket killer just six days before the slaughter. The weapon comes compete with a thirty round magazine designed for NATO 5.56mm (.223 high-velocity) caliber rounds. The barrel has a flash suppressor, and is threaded so you can attach a silencer if you want. The manufacturer has taken pains to exempt the weapon from ATF classification as a short barrelled, semi-automatic carbine. Just the thing for deer hunting if you are having a bad day! Rep. Boebert, have you got one of these?

Boulder's assault weapons ban was overturned in court on the grounds that it violated Colorado's state preemption law. That ruling came ten days before the supermarket slaughter. The city has decided to appeal the ruling in the wake of yet another mass shooting. A ban may not have stopped the killer since he lived in another suburb of Denver, Arvada, and did not purchase the machine pistol in Boulder. Local laws are of limited value in controlling mass shootings. Congress needs to reimplement the assault weapons ban passed during the Clinton administration. Biden, who supported the measure when he was in the Senate, has already stated publicly that he supports a new ban. Does this country really need to tolerate some 20,000 deaths a year (2019) due to mass shootings, facilitated by high-volume weaponry? US Person does not think so, nor should a rational citizen who is not anti-social.