So VA pass an Assault Weapons ban. "Weapon" instead of "rifle" because the include both rifles and pistols. It grand-fathers in those already in existence. Heck if I were a dealer I'd stock up on lowers myself, though I wonder if in the wording dealers inventory isn't exempt? Basically, I THINK, anything "capable" of holding 20rd magazine. Capable of attaching a suppressor (don't know how integral ones would be covered). And of course the dreaded folding stock is a no-no.
MEANWHILE IN GA. We're passing Sales Tax Free Holiday for firearms and ammo. Did it once before. Look I don't mind, but I'd rather go back to the Sales Tax Free Back-To-School holiday for school supplies and computers. GA legislature dropped that one for budget reasons. WAIT: We're running $Billions in surplus right now. And that's with giving the movie industry tons of tax breaks.
I SEE/HEAR MEDIA use the term Long Gun when police are described responding to a crime, as in "The Swat Team were on site with Long Guns". I gotta start watching to see if the conversely use Assault Rifle when a civilian has one.
LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH for children is the current gun control mantra. Oh Sorry. Gun Safety Mantra. CHILDREN only if you include 18 & 19YOs. And when you do, which they do, then Bars out pace Schools in location of shootings.