The law of unintended consequences in action.

Exactly #2. A better description would be "anti-assault weapons".

They should also sell yard signs that say "assault weapons on board" to keep burglars away.

Ask a person who talks about "assault weapons" to define the characteristic that make it an "assault weapon" and they can´t.

Geeze..... where are all the news reports about all the mass shooting that occur at these gun shows where all these assault weapons are ???

All those mass shootings were perpetrated by crazy people, who were dangerous to others and themselves. No NRA members have ever perpetrated mass shootings. Obviously the focus of the government should be on keeping dangerous crazy people from purchasing and possessing any type of firearm. Unfortunately politics has already got in the way.

Its is pretty clear to just about everyone that guns have been around in great numbers since long before the USA was founded, but that the splurge in these mass shootings of innocent people by dangerous crazy people only started a decade or so ago, after really violent movies and video games started to be created and made available to the general population, including crazy people who do not have the mental capacity to process violent multimedia video without it addicting and permanently affecting them in ways not fully understood yet, and that may well cause a very few of them to fall off the reality cliff and go out and commit mass homicide.

The politics of all this are also pretty clear, the small arms and ammunition industries, along with the gun accessory and parts industries are mostly Republican constituencies, while people who are mentally ill, with only a small percentage being both crazy and dangerous, are a big liberal Democrat constituency group with most of the mentally ill voting for liberal Democrats due to the liberal Democrats support of expanding social services, along with the fact that the liberal Democrats consider the mentally ill to have a disability and a voter in need of their help. That´s why the liberal Democrats will never blame a crazy person perpetrator after these mass shootings, and always put the blame on a gun, the NRA, or conservatives in general.

Reuters continues to mislead. ´Assault weapons´ are FULLY AUTOMATIC weapons. These are strictly regulated by the Federal government. More lies from the media.....

I´m not surprised at Liberals surprise that law abiding frightened to death citizens are anxious enough about their safety to stand in line to buy protection in the form of guns. When our own president advocates and approves violence in the streets there is no other choice. Violence in the streets by union thugs, ghetto dwellers everywhere, and has even involved illegal aliens flooding into our country. He is a rabble-rouser extraordinaire when it comes to hate and discontent.

The unthinkable has arrived. Our government is setting the stage for open revolt as a result of their Communist Socialist Administration attempting to move toward total government control. As another President said, "This will not stand!"

Dear Reuters,

Can you tell us what it is like to be both arrogant and ignorant? It must be exhausting.

For not much money a simple ranch variety .22 can be made to fit their screwy definitions of "assault weapons". Stick on a flash suppressor, a different stock and a pistol grip and the owner becomes an official psychopath conservative.

Allegedly lanza had guns because he stole them after having failed a background check. That info, if true, seems to be getting lost in the shuffle by the fanatics.

I can assault you with a baseball bat.

I can assault you with a glass ashtray.

I can assault you with a knife.

I can assault you with a single-shot bolt-action rifle.

I can assault you with a single-action six-shooter.

Kindly define "assault weapon" for us.

Are they the same weapons policemen use in thousands of American cities?

Ever notice that the police usually arrive after something horrifying has already happened?

"There should be more strict background checks," said Abernathy, a Dallas resident. He said there should be a 30-day waiting period to buy weapons and a thorough background check that includes five references.

It´s not much of a Constitutional Right
if you have to ask your neighbors´ mommy
for permission to exercise it!

Dave and Kevin would not know an assualt weapon if they had on shoved up their rear end.

I´m with #5, a baseball weapon can be an assault weapon.

The liberals want to make sure that we walk peacefully to the boxcars with no weapons.

The real American Patriots know what is real!

Molon labe

"there should be a 30-day waiting period to buy weapons and a thorough background check that includes five references."

Thirty days??? But I´m mad now!
- Homer Simpson

As a former Supreme Court justice stated decades ago: "A right delayed is a right denied." He was referring to voting, but that applies to any of our explicitly enumerated or implicit rights.

That´s because people are thinking
Get ´em while you can.

I have been to several gun shows over the last year and have not seen a single assault weapon anywhere. I HAVE seen quite a few semi autos, but they were horribly overpriced.
Luckily I already own about half a dozen.

We all know that they aren´t "assault weapons," whatever that even means, but let it go. Anything that makes liberals wet themselves is OK by me.