Guns used in Texas school shooting leave ‘assault weapon’ argument flat-footed

By Chris Eger

Students are checked before entering Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo: David J. Phillip/AP)
Although the weapons used to kill 10 at Santa Fe High School last week were not of the type regulated by proposed gun restrictions, some are undeterred in continued calls for a ban on assault weapons.
Reports from the Texas high school have the 17-year-old gunman armed with a pump-action shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver that were legally owned by his father. Nonetheless, advocates for a sweeping ban on semi-autos, such as the AR-15 and others, have increased their demands for gun control measures that include a ban on “black rifles” and the like.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer forecast that school shootings would endure without such a federal prohibition, saying, “Until Republicans in Congress stop blocking meaningful action on gun violence and instead work together to enact commonsense background check laws and ban the most deadly assault weapons, none of us can truly expect this carnage to lessen.”
Hoyer’s words were echoed in the Senate where Dianne Feinstein, author of the initial federal assault weapon ban, stated plainly that, “The time for an assault weapons ban, universal background checks,’red-flag’ laws &

Source: Guns.com