How do you all image a regular gun would do that? An automatic weapon is made for war. At some point a hand gun has to be reloaded. This is not even including the raw power of the weapon being used. Sure any gun could kill 49 people however if that man walked into that club with just a hand gun i doubt anywhere near 49 lives would have been lost.

@chak your response is basically saying why bother. Yes there are alot of guns out there and how to fix that is for much smarter men then myself. However i can say making laws that ban these heavy duty weapons gets some of them off the street. There is no reason a person in this country needs a weapon of that size.