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CMV: Gun Control Advocates should abandon attempts to ban so-called 'Assault-style weapons' and high-capacity magazines and focus on UBC and closing loopholes.

Couple clarifications:

* When I say 'high capacity magazines', I think the limit should be set at perhaps 20 or 30. No one in civilian life has any need for drum mags, but less than 20 seems overly restrictive.

* Assault-Style Weapons: ARs, AKs in semi-auto etc. Pretty much federal status quo.

* I think a gun ban or buyback just isn't in the cards. It's too ingrained in American culture to have enough support, and that's not considering the logistics or budgetary nightmare, or the exceedingly legitimate use cases such as hunting and livestock protection. 

My core argument is that both sides are so thoroughly entrenched that no meaningful progress is possible. The NRA thinks the gun control lobby wants a gun ban. Gun control lobby thinks NRA wants guns on every street corner in every hand. These are obviously exaggerations of their actual positions, but it's hard to see any progress made, especially at the federal level.

If the gun control lobby shifts primarily to 'common sense' legislation, such as UBC and closing loopholes (as opposed to attempting to ban classes or categories of weapons entirely) that may actually allow criminals to acquire firearms, such as 80% receivers, one of two things might happen.

* The NRA might compromise, but this is a pipe dream.

* More importantly, moderate gun owners who were concerned about having their 17-round pistol magazines and lawfully obtained ARs confiscated could support gun control without shooting themselves in the foot, pardon the pun.
gpt
All loopholes have actually long been closed. They do not really exist. Criminals acquire their weapons on the black market. They are normally stolen or smuggled weapons, not ones sold directly to the criminal by a store or gun show vendor. 

Additionally all guns save for bolt action rifles, lever action rifles, single shot antique weapons and some older single action designs of revolvers are semi-automatic guns. Semi-Automatic means that when you pull the trigger the gun will fire with no other actions needed to be taken by you. 

People in civilian life who have to deal with culling herds of wild animals, such as feral hogs have need of high capacity magazines for their hunting. You may think it is just a meme, but they really do travel in sounders of 30-40 large and will actively scatter the moment the group is attacked with some of them often turning to attack the hunters. If you are going to get the whole group and not just cause it to split into multiple groups only spreading the problem out you have to kill them all at once.