No offense, but I struggle to think of a worse metric you could use to regulate guns. Bolt action hunting rifles tend to have the highest muzzle velocities, and small high-caliber handguns the lowest.

It's fine, you're just some guy shooting from the hip on bluesky, I don't expect you to be able to write good legislation. The problem is that your typical Democratic legislator isn't doing much better.

I specifically said muzzle velocity and magazine capacity because of bolt action rifles.

Bite that bullet? Mmmm, tasty!

Okay. The Ruger 10-22 shoots 22LR -- potentially deadly, but if you saw the bullet you'd think it's a pellet rifle. It generally has a 10 round magazine, and you could legislate that as a requirement. It also has a muzzle velocity of 1260 feet per second.

The Colt 1911 is a 45 caliber handgun and was previously the standard issue sidearm of the US military. It has a 7 round capacity and a muzzle velocity with standard ammunition of ~800 feet per second. Nobody in their right mind would suggest the former is more dangerous than the latter.

Ceterus paribus is a thing, and we can plausibly regulate multiple dimensions at once You could potentially even index them!

Combination of "Rifle" cartridge, magazine capacity, rate of fire Not perfect but can get you close. And better than what we have

Yes that makes sense as you would have to account for the size of the bullets as well, but these metrics are actually related to the lethality of the weapon in ways that the inclusion of grip attachments is really not.

Is my understanding wrong that bullet speed is one of the things that makes the AR-15 more deadly than a hand gun and able to destroy human organs on impact?

Personally I would be happy to accidentally ban hunting rifles lol

Sure thats fine I just dont like being accused of being an idiot when I have actually thought about those two variables before.

You know, I personally also quite dislike being accused of being an idiot when I have in fact thought of the thing the other person thinks I obviously haven't though of. A most unpleasant experience.

What i will say is that they both are right about how dems draft these bills which tend to come down to cosmetic style features that have no relation to lethality.

Oh yeah I'm sure