What is entertaining is that all of these bills are obviously written by someone who knows nothing about guns, rifles, or weapons period. It's as if they are looking at pictures or recalling what they've seen in movies and using that as a tool to describe what they are trying to outlaw. I especially love this one:
But...reading this one give me the creeps...maybe they do have someone mechanically inclined in their service. Even though they are referring to a shotgun cartridge and not a shell.(3)a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the nontrigger hand without being burned;
This line is ominous as well, it could mean anything:(7)the term “semiautomatic shotgun” means any repeating shotgun that utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fixed cartridge case and chamber the next round and requires a separate pull of a trigger to fire each cartridge.
I read regulations all day long and have successfully argued many points with regulators simply using the language from the regulations to prove my point. Of course, the SCOTUS has just set the precedence that words mean nothing. It's a sad day for common sense.(5)a semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.