• User talk:Yaf/Archive 1 -- 22 November 2005 - 14 July 2007
• User talk:Yaf/Archive 2 -- 14 July 2007 - 7 April 2008

Please feel free to leave comments. Thanks. Yaf

Dear Yaf,

Please consider undoing your 01:26, 28 April 2008 and 01:19, 28 April 2008 edits on the "types of firearms" section in "gun politics in the US."

The Josh Sugarmann internal link does indeed contain the quotation I used; that quotation represents a pro-gun control source who felt that confusion was important to the bill's support (I can provide similar NRA-based comments, but I thought the Sugarmann quotation had more credibility).

Also, I must admit that I have been unable to read Kruschke, but he was writing in 1995 (as to previous edit) and the confusion between full-auto and semi-auto in the American public is likely less now, after all the discussion that attended the aftermath and sunsetting of the 1994 assault weapons ban.

As to "third category," this is his conflation of semi-auto and full-auto firearms (see first paragraph of the "types" subsection). If he did write "automatic weapons" (the brackets indicate he did not), he made an error of logic: there are NO other automatic weapons (automatic and full-automatic are generally considered synonyms) besides machineguns and submachinguns--the inclusion of "certain types of military and police rifles" in his list is therefore either repetitive (if they are automatic) or incorrect (if they are semi-automatic, but he includes them as "automatic weapons").

If you feel that he truly meant automatic military and police rifles, and is merely redundant, please permit me to label his redundancy so redundant(in a superscript).

Finally, if you feel the "confusion" paragraph doesn't stand unless I get ANOTHER reference in addition to Sugarmann, I can do so.

Regards,

icammd

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