NO ONE is constitutionally allowed MILITARY STYLE weapons or over-sized, even 100-round magazines. Similar to what was done in Australia in 1996, a law should be passed that requires ALL MILITARY STYLE weapons to be turned in to gun shops, or other outlets, within 12 months, to have metal, or a similar substance poured into their barrels to render them non-fire-able (cannot shoot a bullet). The weapon is then returned to its owner after it has been registered to that owner on a Federal data base. The owner can now still have that weapon in his/her collection. ALL over-sized magazines would have to be submitted to authorities at a loss to the owner, or as a 'buy-back' from Federal or state funds. NO military style weapons would be allowed to be manufactured and sold to U.S. citizens from that point on as was passed by the Federal Assault Weapons ban in 1994. That ban was allowed to expire ten years later in 2004 by a Republican-NRA controlled congress. Second Amendment rights would still be preserved and U.S. citizens could still own as many hunting rifles and hunting shotguns, and non-military style hand guns as before. Mass shootings will still occur but instead of 17 to 50+ killed, only several could be killed at a time with a hunting rifle/shotgun, or a handgun with its normal sized magazine.
No rational, sane reason can be morally presented for defending the ownership of military styled assault rifles (weapons) that can be converted with a 'butt-stock' to fully automated machine guns (Las Vegas). 'Butt-stocks' and silencers should be made illegal to own. Great ear protection is already available to all who shoot. Congressmen and Supreme/lower court 'Constitutionalists' that continue to justify their rationale that the Constitution and its Amendments should only be interpreted in the 18th Century rational in which they were written, are wrong. The Constitution and the Amendments are 'living documents' and should be interpreted within the 21st Century contexts in which we now live.
One felony level law, several parts: 1) once again outlaw the manufacture and possession of operable (fire-able) military style assault weapons; 2) require all 5-8 million military assault weapons to be turned in and rendered inoperable, and then returned back to their owners after all military assault weapons have been registered to their owners; 3) all over-sized magazines, butt-stocks, and silencers outlawed; and 4) universal background checks for ALL weapon purchases (retail, gun-show, and personal). If this law is NOT enacted, then other military style weapons: machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, LAW's, mortars? ...will eventually become the next weapons allowed via the Second Amendment's current irrational interpretation and enforcement. We need rational, sane, humane Congressmen AND gun owners! NOT irrational, paranoiac, Second Amendment and gun fanatics! I’m a Moderate Republican, gun owner, retired military veteran, and sane grandfather!