Constitutional Law

DC police to get "assault weapons"

Story here.

Strange part is that the firearms sound like M-16s and M-4s converted over to semiauto. (1) surplus may be cheap, but unless they replace the receiver it's legally a full auto no matter what you do to convert it; (2) military M-4 cost around $1500, whereas AR-15 clones can be had for half that (and probably still less if you're buying in this sort of quantity); (3) has the government stopped buying M-4s at that price, since it apparently is selling off a surplus of them?

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).