Chris Murphy: We Aren’t Going To Ban All Semi-Auto Rifles

By Tom Knighton

Do people like Connecticut’s Sen. Chris Murphy want to ban all semi-auto rifles or just the so-called assault rifles? If you ask most gun folks, they’d tell you that Murphy not only wants to ban all semi-auto rifles but all firearms in general.

However, Murphy says he has no interest in banning all semi-autos, just “bad” guns.

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) said “we’re not talking about a ban on all semiautomatic weapons” on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.

The question came in response to a CNN town hall Wednesday where the audience cheered a hypothetical ban on all semiautomatic weapons, an idea that Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) meant to highlight as outside the mainstream.

“I know that there is this differentiation that gun control supporters believe in,” Tapper said. “There’s assault weapons and then there’s all the other semiautomatic weapons, but Rubio’s point—and it’s not incorrect—is that just a few changes, and one is legal and one is not legal. Do you support a ban on all semiautomatic weapons?” Tapper asked.

“I support a ban on assault weapons and assault weapons are defined by state law. Not as all semiautomatic weapons,” Murphy said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms