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True... To be honest it's kind of a moot point – the impact damage is similar either way but the AR15 isn't meant to be a spray and pray.
The fact is, the bullet leaves the barrel at 3x the speed of a 9mm pistol and the gun barely recoils doing so. It's meant to be as lethal as possible and buying one seems to be way too trivial.One idea would be to impose regional restrictions (must be stored at a gun range if in a city unless for hunting in the country on a farm or something, then can be kept in a safe) on top of more extensive background checks that take weeks, not minutes.
Just make them more of a pain in the ass to get and keep. That would make them more collectable and thus less likely to be used on people.
It should be like getting a driving licence in Finland.
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How easily can you modify one of the AR15 platforms to create a fully automated weapon?
Quick Google shows quite a few hybrid(?) legal conversation kits. So its all well and good saying it's only a semi-automatic, but it's meaningless when it's perfectly easy to fire multiple shots in quick succession anyway and you could probably illegally convert it anyway.
It feels a bit like the old joke about asking for directions and being told "well I wouldn't start from here".