Oh, yes, I see that appears to be the official white house website. So he must have said it.

Now the question is if there is new evidence of the bushmaster having been converted to full automatic operation or not. I did some searching earlier today and found a video of a fellow demonstrating a similar gun equipped with a sliding stock device which is legal but gives all evidence of full automatic operation. So you can get into discussions similar to the definition of a "technical virgin" and the like.

Even if one thinks the president is evil incarnate it seems pretty unlikely that he would deliberately misrepresent anything so easily disproved. So I am going with the idea that it either has a fully automatic operation device added or that he simply does not know the difference technically.

Personally I don't care if the gun is semi automatic, fully automatic or is equipped with a device which creates a fully automatic equivelant. Just because people think its fun to shoot a lot of rounds really quickly does not mean they should be able to own such devices legally.

And I don't care how the problem is attacked. ...guns in the hands of properly trained, psychologically screened people? OK. More effective screening of gun buyers? Ok by me. More interaction between the medical profession and law enforcement? OK by me.

I am in favor of making our society more safe using whatever methods work.

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