Second Amendment and Gun Control

Since the drive began in earnest to ban military assaults weapons, the anti-gun control people would have the public believe that there is no way laws can be written to differentiate between a military weapon like the AK-47 and semiautomatic sport rifles. This is just a smoke screen by the anti-gun control people who do not want any gun-control laws no matter how desperately needed they are. There are obvious criteria for telling the two types of weapons apart.

Intent of design should be one criteria. A weapon originally designed to be fired automatically--or even at a high rate of speed semiautomatically--and accommodate a clip with a large number of rounds--is obviously a military weapon and ought to be banned from the public.

Such a ban would not infringe on the rights of hunters whose first priority is accuracy and, of course, there are already laws on the books limiting the number of rounds a rifle or shotgun can carry. So where is the conflict between sport rifles and shotguns and military weapons? The sooner the military weapons are banned the better.

RONALD AKINS

Los Angeles