In conjunction with Ed Ingold.
In crafting her masterpiece 2013 bill to ban “assault weapons”, Senator Dianne Feinstein explained the failure of the 1994 version to the fact that manufacturers were able to circumvent the intent of that bill by making cosmetic changes to the weapons, including replacing pistol grips with “thumbhole” stocks.
The term “cosmetic” is unfortunately the core of Senator Feinstein’s bill, since the banned weapons are simply semi-automatic firearms which bear at least one “cosmetic” feature described in the bill.
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