

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.


There is a connect literally adjacent to yours that says “Obama isn’t left at all” with more upvotes than this one. Let’s not pretend the purity circle jerking on Lemmy isn’t a problem.