Gun Control Reform Activism

assault weapons ban from 1985 to bait him into it. Of course I got the, "those guns were already banned, you already couldn't own fully auto weapons..." the usual bullshit. I counter with that is what it is commonly known as and only you guys seem to be confused with what we're talking about. I posted a link and some of the text of the actual House bill.

I then pointed out that for the purposes of the bill, they were called semi-automatic assault weapons (SAW) and that was in bold text from the bill right there too. He jumps in with, "no. SAW stands for squad automatic weapon....." More bullshit. Then I told him, for the purposes of legislation, any kind of training you might ever have had at a company, any technical documents you might ever read, you can use an acronym for brevity any time you want. If my blood center has some equipment or a procedure where it would make sense to use SAW, it makes no difference whatsoever what the army calls one of it's light machine guns. If I'm learning to maintain some blood collection equipment, I'm not going to be confused and wonder if they are talking about a machine gun.