I’m the 1950’s they did have all of the automatic rifles. Also the gun organizations were not political lobbyists as they are today. The ban on automatic rifles significantly reduced gun deaths until it expired in 2004. Most cities murder records were set in 1991. St. Louis being one of them. Even today St. Louis still has less murders than it had in the early 90’s. The numbers don’t lie. Less automatic rifles equal less murders. The three countries with constitutional gun rights all have high gun death rates. I think going back to what we had between 1994 and 2004 is the way to reduce gun deaths. It worked once and can work again.