What they just don't understand.

"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that the “Second Amendment was never absolute” and that, after the Texas elementary school shooting, there may be some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman."
https://www.aol.com/news/biden....-sees-chance-rationa

"What is an 'assault weapon'?
Pro-Second Amendment groups revile the term "assault weapon." The National Shooting Sports Foundation opts to use the phrase “modern sporting rifle” to refer to the commonly owned semi-automatic firearms, as the group claims the guns are misunderstood.
"The central reason these firearms are misunderstood is political," its website reads. "Though the semiautomatic design used in today’s pistols, rifles and shotguns was invented in the late-nineteenth century and was popularly sold to consumers in America and Europe in the early twentieth century, the modern sporting rifle has been called a 'weapon of war' by those who want to ban them."
The NSSF claims that "AR-15-style rifles are NOT 'assault weapons' or 'assault rifles.' An assault rifle is fully automatic, a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.....com/news/what-is-an