Back during all the assault weapon hype, I had a neighbor comment that no one needed a "machine gun". I invited him to go shooting the next Sat., and took along an old Mossberg, and an AR. I instructed him on the use of the AR, and let him ease a few through. Then I set up two sillouette targets at 25', and had him rapid fire at the target, as fast as he could while I did the same with the Mossberg. He hit three of 30. My target was shredded. He shut up about assault rifles.
Now the problem is, if we convinced the anti's on this issue, they would be after our bird guns as well....of course they will be next anyway.
Ben