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Originally Posted by troutman
What if we could ban the sale of automatic weapons to males under the age of 35? Haven't most of these shootings been committed by young men? I suppose they would still get these guns illegally if there was a ban.
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This last shooting was done with handguns. The Dawson College killings was done with a semi-automatic rifle. Columbine was shotguns and pistols. The Red Lake shootings was shotguns and pistols. For the most part its not automatic weapons that are in use, so banning them isn't going to prevent them.
You could ban hand guns and shotguns, however they are easier to get on the street then an automatic weapon.
There is also the concept of easy modification. The semi-automatic AR-16 can be converted to a fully automatic weapon with some simple metal tools and about 10 minutes worth of time.
The semi-automatic consumer version of the AK-47 can be easily converted to a fully automatic weapon.
You can turn almost any rifile into a fully automatic weapon if you don'y care about its use after the first magazine is fired, however they don't have the proper recoil spring so they would be in-accurate.