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Ron Johnson: “It's already illegal to have a fully automatic weapon.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

Johnson Discusses North Korea and Trade on CNN

Published March 12, 2018 | Video Starts at 07:10

There are plenty of hunting weapons that basically have the same operational characteristics. Let's define the operational characteristics. And It's already illegal to have a fully automatic weapon. It's illegal to convert a legal weapon into an automatic weapon. So I would much rather concentrate on verifiable operational characteristics. And then we could evaluate weapons based on that. (07:10–07:14)

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