Look, mrbb, your thinking doesn't mean a thing and the fact that some judge found someone not guilty doesn't mean a thing because unless the verdict was in an appellate court it means nothing for any case except that case, it does not mean those people were right in their actions, if indeed they exist, and it doesn't mean others will not be prosecuted for the same violation. People are found not guilty every day, that does not mean they have not violated the law. Your rationalization is just that, rationalization, because unless a semi auto firearm is rendered a manually operated firearm permanently and can be put back into semi auto mode in the field, it is still a semi auto firearm. I have told you how the law is enforced, not how I think it should be enforced and I am done, so rant on if you like but you will still be wrong in your thinking because that is not how the law is enforced the way the law is enforced.