When the government tries to ban so-called "assault rifles," they are really banning semiautomatic rifles with certain features, but many of the features that legislators pick out are not especially important.
A further problem is that gun manufacturers are clever, and they frequently figure out ways to mitigate the effects of the restrictions.
You're just as dead if someone shoots you with a rifle that does not have a pistol grip or muzzle brake, and the improvement in accuracy from these features at the ranges most mass shooters are using these weapons is negligible.
True "assault rifles" in the technical sense are not used in mass shootings in the US; a "necessary condition" for something being an assault rifle is that it is capable of firing both semiautomatic and fully automatic.
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