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Re:New Zeland bans all military-style semi-automatic guns an... by CompanionCuuube on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:06PM (#19456677)
Yes, and this ban is against "military style" semi automatics. They believe that being able to accept a detachable magazine makes a gun "military style".

It's tremendously idiotic.

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Re:New Zeland bans all military-style semi-automatic guns an... by ceejayoz on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:38PM (#19457060)
Meh. If it successfully bans the guns they're looking to ban, and not the ones they didn't, does it matter what they called them?
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Re:New Zeland bans all military-style semi-automatic guns an... by CompanionCuuube on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:03PM (#19457813)
> If it successfully bans the guns they're looking to ban, and not the ones they didn't, does it matter what they called them?

Do you mean the lobbyists or the general public?

If you ask the general public to pick out which ones are not "military style" you're going to find that a lot of the ones banned don't get picked. So it doesn't meet your criteria for success.

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