Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has renewed his call for the confiscation of American citizens' legally purchased and owned semi-automatic rifles, pistols and shotguns.
Democratic Virginia Del. Mark Levine held up his arms up at shoulder level to mimic a hunting rifle and said “you can shoot very precisely with a gun that goes like this.”
AR-15s and other semi-automatic rifles are used daily by Americans from all walks of life, legally and safely, for everything from hunting to home defense, to competitive shooting and just plinking.
A federal judge upheld California’s ban on many popular semi-automatic rifles. U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton said the state could do this because “assault weapons” are “essentially indistinguishable from M-16s.”