The anti-gun lobby decided to target firearms that look like military weapons for tactical reasons. As the VPC`s Josh Sugarmann observed in 1988, "The weapons` menacing looks, coupled with the public`s confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons -- anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun -- can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."
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