 There was this fear that gangsters weren't just shooting each other anymore, that they were shooting into the public, that they were spraying these bullets everywhere. This was a brand new kind of gun. And so if you read the floor debates surrounding this bill and look at what Congress wanted to do here, it was to ban every kind of gun in this genre and not allow for gun makers and bad guys to carve out these loopholes that essentially Clarence Thomas has now carved out.