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You have drastically increased the ability to inflict death and injury. That means you can shoot more rounds faster and easier, what they call spray and pray.

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Enhanced lethality, that's what we are talking about. Lethality increases when you have larger bullets, more ammunition and the guns are easier to operate. That's the contribution Glock and others have brought to America.

It's clear that the militarized stuff is the stuff that sells and is defining the industry.

These are ideal weapons of terrorist attack.

There is not a middle ground with the NRA.

They translate the industry's needs into less crass, less economically interested language -- into defending the home, into defending the country. The industry needs a veneer of respectability.

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