Assault Weapon Bans Are All About Appearance

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s latest bill classifies firearms not by what they do but based on how they look. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Subscribe to our podcast at Apple Podcasts: Reason is the planet’s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to for a point of view you won’t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- A string of high-profile mass shootings over the past few years has spawned a movement to outlaw so-called assault weapons, in particular the popular AR-15. On January 9, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D–Calif.) introduced a federal bill to ban assault weapons—legislation that’s been depicted as life-saving, common sense policy. But its definition of an assault weapon is totally arbitrary. Proposals like Feinstein’s latest draft bill leave shooters with