Thousands of semiautomatic, military-style rifles filter out of Garrett Streitz’s gun manufacturing business every year, and there’s no shortage of people who want to buy one.
“It’s just the modern gun,” said Streitz, who owns Alex Pro Firearms in Alexandria, Minn.
To others, they are weapons of war whose lethality was again put on grim display in a pair of attacks this month that slaughtered more than 30 people and wounded dozens more in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
The latest round of bloodshed has sharpened an already roiling gun debate around the country and in Minnesota, which has included impassioned calls to revive a federal ban on assault weapons that was in force for a decade before expiring in 2004…
Source: Star Tribune
Author: Stephen Montemayor