The loophole in the Mass. assault weapons ban

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3. Well remember defining what you are regulating

Is merely a distraction. You don't need any of that fancy technical words to describe what it is just to make a law.

The first part, it's meaningless. Pretty much every center fire semi-automatic rifle uses some form of a gas operating system. That doesn't help define an assault rifle in any way.

The second, addressing components, is a better effort but it is fatally flawed. Merely stating compatible components is going to be struck down as being vague and overly broad. If simply one component, such as if a screw, fits a AR-15 and a Browning BAR with its 4 round fixed magazine the Browning is now an assault rifle? Yet if they say 100% component interchangeability all the manufacturers have to do is come out with the new B-17 Modern Rifle which looks and functions exactly as an AR-15 but it has a larger takedown pin that does not fit the AR-15.