Since Trump’s election, gun groups catering to progressives and people of color report a surge in interest as they look to defend themselves in a country that, to them, feels increasingly unstable.

  • Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    This isn’t entirely true. Our gun laws are weird as fuck, and half of them seem designed to get around some sort of loophole or another.

    To any reasonable person, a 10.5" AR-15 that looks like this:

    is an assault rifle. Per US gun laws, it’s a perfectly legal “pistol.”

    In dozens of states including my own, you can freely purchase and own one without any sort of permit whatsoever, you just buy it.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      The ar-15 is not an assault rifle. Regardless of how much cosmetic crap you throw on it, it’s semi auto. Not burst fire or full auto. It’s no more deadly than any number of wood stock semi auto hunting rifles.