One of the reasons we think a great number of people, not everyone, is confused by firearms nomenclature is when I see Democrats in Congress tell people that an AR-15 is a machine gun or that an AK-47 clone is an assault rifle. I have even seen on news reports where a man was stabbed to death and a background photo of a Smith & Wesson Model 39 9mm was being shown. Yes, I carried that same model pistol while serving as a LEO. You can say what you like but I do know my firearms. Another example is when one of the Democratic Congresswomen made a statement to the effect of, let's allow gun owners to buy as many of these magazines as they want because when they are gone they won't be able to buy any more. Of course she was referring to a detachable magazine for an AR-15. She apparently thought that they came loaded with either 20 or 30 rounds and that once fired they are not refillable with another 20 or 30 cartridges. There are other examples where stupid things are said by people trying to prove a point against the ownership of firearms.

Your own hero, President Obama, recently told people in a speech, as follows:

Despite no longer living in the White House, former President Barack Obama continues to be a headache to law-abiding Americans. On May 30, Obama spoke at a digital innovation event in Brazil. During the onstage conversation, Obama said, “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if any, regulation. They can buy [guns] over the internet, they can buy machine guns.”

In one breath, President Obama perpetuated the same lies as the mainstream media to push their gun-control agenda. Those lies were immediately called out by The Federalist:

Anybody can buy a firearm (Prohibited persons; anyone under the age of 18 for rifles and 21 for handguns; and non-U.S. citizens cannot legally purchase a firearm.)
Any firearm can be purchased (Since 1934, the National Firearms Act has heavily regulated many types of firearms, not to mention the myriad of other state laws.)
A firearm can be purchased at any time (Background checks can only be run during certain times during the day and can take up to three days to complete. Firearms regulated by the NFA can take over a year to acquire.)
Firearms can be purchased with few regulations (There are thousands of regulations on firearms on the state and federal level.)
Anyone can purchase a machine gun (Since 1986, new automatic firearms can only be purchased by licensed federal firearms dealers for government entities, and some states completely ban the possession of machineguns.)
President Obama is no stranger to inventing his own t***h to suit his own political agenda. In 2016, at a Memorial Day service, he said, “We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.” The Washington Post even went so far as to called the claim “strange” and “based in no real statistics, and which does nothing but distract the public.” This hyperbolic claim earned him “Three Pinocchio’s” from the Washington Post.

Of course every bit of this is a lie and he knows it. At least, common sense would tell a sensible man that a past POTUS SHOULD know these things. Otherwise how in hell did he become POTUS, right? But in Obama's case and his lying Liberal antics, he cares more about his anti gun agenda than telling the t***h.

Of course this answers your question about confusion doesn't it? Yes, a great many politicians and news people are confused and spread wrong information in a robust manner. Others are just plain liars trying to, "prove", their F'd up agenda with yet, more and more lies. To me, they are all the very same peddlers of BS. Whether you are a news person or a politician it is your job to spread information in an accurate manner. When you spread BS you are no longer either of the above but just some common POS trying to get a fictitious point across to the people. We with Common Sense call that F**e News.

I am truly sorry for you that you cannot see this or differentiate it between t***h. I heard years ago that if a person needs to lie to get his point across then just how important is his point to begin with. If President Obama feels the need to lie about firearms then apparently the firearms PROBLEM in America is grossly overstated to begin with.

Forgive me if I don't recall but wasn't it you just a couple of days ago who made a statement about needing more background checks to buy a firearm? I think it was you. I meant to point out that in many if not most of the mass shootings in America the firearms used were bought perfectly legally and in accordance with all statutes. I recall in the case of the Newtown, CT shooting the firearms used were bought perfectly legally by the shooter's mother. Of course the shooter k**led his mother and then used the firearms she owned to go to the school to shoot the victims.

I have asked this question numerous times both here in The Attic and in other places as well. I have never received an answer. Please give me one law that is not already on the books that would have stopped any of the mass shootings ever. Just one will do. No need to hog wild and crazy with a 10,000 word essay on the subject. I know you are a busy man. Don't feel bad. Nobody else has come up with one either.

You see that is the other problem with politicians like almost every one of the Democratic P**********l candidates in the run now. They want to brag they will stop mass shootings by confiscating assault type weapons etc. But the least of America's problems regarding murder is assault type rifles. That is only a scape goat to make the public THINK the Democrats are doing something to solve the problem.

I know you pointed out the shooting in New Zealand and then happily told us that there was a law enacted which makes every citizen have to turn in their assault type rifles. My understanding is that out of thousands of rifles out there only about 530 have been turned in. So much for that idea, huh? Another thing with the shooting in New Zealand, is that is probably the very first shooting of its type, maybe EVER. If so then that means thousands of perfectly legal rifle owners need to suffer because some dumb ass POS politician THINKS that will solve the problem. Yup, the problem of one shooting. But to put this another way, the shooter is no longer with us/them so the problem was already solved, was it not?

Can you not even see how stupid all of this assault type rifle paranoia is. You are probably more apt to be struck by lightning or eaten by a shark than to be k**led by one of these rifles. Yet the Democrats, always spreading fear, use this as one more reason to v**e Democratic. Stupid people just eat this stuff up don't they? Just like a few years ago Democrats told v**ers that if they did not v**e for Obama then Conservatives would blow up churches in the South. Uh huh. Actually it was not Conservatives that blew up churches in the South but Southern Democrats. But what did the silly black people care? They were going to v**e Democratic to save their churches and their children.

Dennis