Washington state right now is trying to ban "assault weapons" and high capacity magazines. The biggest issue with that is, what is an "assault rifle"? Generally speaking, something semi-automatic that looks tacticle and has a high capacity magazine. For example, you take your standard AR-15 with a 30 round mag. That classifies as an "assault weapon". Take that 30 round mag out and put a 10 round mag in and now it's a "sporting rifle".

While I will agree that today there is very little to no reason at all to own an AR-15 or AK-47 or high capacity magazines, there is also no reason not to have them.

In gun culture you have two, very simple groups. Group A are the people who own guns for self defense, hunting, and having fun on weekends at the range. Group B is your city slickers who don't know a damn thing about guns but think it's cool to own them and think they have a lot of power with them. There are a lot more people in group A than there are in group B. Coming off of group B we have that minority of people (roughly 0.00001% of the population of the US) who buy guns to kill people and commit mass murder. Does it suck hearing about mass murders? You bet it does, however 10k people a year die by being murdered by a person who used a firearm. That is 0.0001% of the population who gets murdered. Should we take these guns that create fun for the other 99.9998% of the population because the other part is unfortunate? NO.