What would a well-thought-out assault weapons ban look like?

If a law were to target actual characteristics of weapons used in mass murder, what would it focus on? Magazine capacity? Rate of fire?

An analysis of weapons used in mass shootings comes up with this:

As you can see, weapon choice doesn’t make mass shootings much more deadly. And there is only a slight preference for “assault weapons” over what’s typically being sold.

Note: My source data is the mother jones mass shooting data.

So if you really want to impact mass shootings, you better ban ALL handguns and ALL semi-auto rifles and shotguns. All of them.

In addition to being directly forbidden by Heller vs. DC, such a move would be wildly unpopular with the vast majority of Americans.

Any other ban proposal is by it’s nature worthless.

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