In the late 1980s, Josh Sugarman at the Valous Policy Center proposed a new strategy to ban guns. Instead of targeting handguns which had little public support, he suggested focusing on assault weapons. Sugarman believed that by exploiting the public's ignorance and labeling these weapons as machine guns, their ban would gain more traction.
Malcolm goes to a shooting range in the woods of North Carolina to get a tutorial on the AR-15. It’s scary. It’s ugly. It’s at the center of the gun control debate. But what exactly makes it worse than other guns?
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