Yes. Specifically, assault pistol. This new definition adds assault long gun.
hperrin
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No, it redefines it. It repeals the old definition and enacts a new definition. That is redefining. Did you read it?
What do you think happens when the cops show up? (If the cops have the balls to walk through the door and try to save the kids, that is.)
If I’ve learned anything from Pascal’s Wager, it’s that we should definitely believe one (and only one) of them, because if they’re right and they are god, we’ll get rewarded!
Are you asking because you want to know, or are you asking to sow doubt that clearly effective laws are effective?
How many assault weapons attacks occur in England every year? How does that compare to the US? Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that assault weapons are illegal in England?
(By the way, you can replace England with almost any other country in the world in that paragraph and it still works.)
Also, if you actually want to know, you should be petitioning your government to make it easier to study gun violence. Right now, it’s very hard to study gun violence, thanks to the lobbying efforts of the NRA.
Let me put it this way, which gun would you rather have in a gunfight?
Yeah, and this is one of them. There are plenty of studies showing that gun control works. You don’t need to take my word for it. Here’s a Scientific American article about it:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-is-clear-gun-control-saves-lives1/
If you don’t see the difference between a trained professional plinking with a lever action .22 and a 20 year old mowing down 20 kids and 6 adults with a semi-auto assault rifle, you’re hopeless.
From the article in the original post:
Maryland has seen a decline in gun violence since the enactment of a series of laws aimed at curbing access to dangerous weapons.
Read the law before you assume what it says.
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0623f.pdf
It doesn’t take “one specific model” off the market, it redefines assault weapon in the text of the law to include any weapon with certain features.
By that logic, why should anything be illegal?