So dismissing my original assertion in favor of Consitutional law assumes that the prerequistes still apply

Unless I'm misunderstanding you.

We're talking about Reagan's statements, and modern Democrat statements.

yes, correct.

And how they're copy-pasted.

I am pointing out that it was a different world with different priorities and a different audience

the democratic party of that era was nothing like the democratic party today

at least everyone acknowledge the bigger threat

Let me spell this out then

reagan was politiking

Do you think that a citizen has to justify utilitarian ownership of a firearm to either sporting or home defense?

offering the dems a bone in the moment that simply allowed him to appear both anti-assault rifle and anti-soviet

each audience heard what they wanted

conservs focused on 'soviet gun'; dems on 'assault-rifle'

absolutely

the citizen should have the right and States should have the right per the constitution

He didn't call it an assault rifle.

but SHOULD != IS

the 'IS' requires concessions for gov to function

from both sides

no, he didn't; but the verbage afterwards implied 'assault-rifle'

in truth, that attitude is historically incorrect as in the days of the Civil War, private citizens were owners of cannons and other military grade equip

they were even encouraged to do so

Is an ak47 a machine gun?

technically no

colloquially yes

I don't give a metric fuckton of what you stand for, right or left. But if you say you're wanting to ban or restrict the peoples access to arms or ammunition then you're in the "Hanged on live TV." book.

and the collquial definition is the definition democrats understand

i don't speak english to a german and expect them to get my point

So he was using bs Language to ban a firearm he didn't like

Can you explain the difference between machine gun used in that context and assault weapon used today

> Is an ak47 a machine gun?
@RyeNorth No, it's an assault rifle (a military rifle w/ selective fire)

MGs are squad-support weapons, & most of them can *only* do autofire

in essence... but in my view, he 'didn't like it' from the perspective of a grandfather

that never hunted himself

> I don't give a metric fuckton of what you stand for, right or left. But if you say you're wanting to ban or restrict the peoples access to arms or ammunition then you're in the "Hanged on live TV." book.
@Steyr "Thick" Shotgun

given our state of military alertness that everyone was daily aware of back then, his statement wasn't viewed as such an absolute

people recongized the sentiment behind it