AP
The Chicago Sun-Times editorial board should focus on advocating for more resources to better enforce existing gun laws instead of pushing more gun control on law-abiding Americans. Pandering for restrictive laws, including bans on so-called “assault weapons,” as you do in a Feb. 15 editorial, will not end the criminal misuse of firearms.
The editorial board blames so-called “assault weapons,” which are modern sporting rifles, the most popular-selling centerfire rifle in America. There are 20 million in circulation today, used for lawful purposes, including recreational target shooting, self-defense and hunting. These semiautomatic rifles use technology introduced to the marketplace in the late 1800s. They have been commercially available since the early 1960s. They fire only one round with each pull of the trigger.