A gun industry insider's powerful testimony is cause for despair

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : While the Supreme Court's conservatives have yet to apply this interpretation of the Second Amendment to AR-15s specifically, the gun industry and its allies clearly think that's where the justices will come down.
50% : Given that the idea of an assault weapons ban is quite popular, one might think it would have a chance of being enacted, especially considering the seemingly endless number of mass shootings involving AR-15-style weapons.
47% : But in highlighting the ubiquity of these deadly weapons, the Oversight Committee's report and the testimony highlighted the very factor gun advocates, including those on the Supreme Court, will use to insulate these guns from regulation.
45% : As Busse noted, it was only after the assault weapons ban included in the 1994 crime bill expired in 2004 that gun manufacturers realized the riches that awaited them if they got into the AR-15 business.
40% : You see it during an exchange during a Judiciary Committee debate over the assault weapons ban.

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