If you're inclined to believe Bloomberg.com with no questions asked, you might think U.S. citizen disarmament laws aren't restrictive enough:

Permissive U.S. gun controls rewarded pistol, shotgun and sniper-rifle manufacturers worldwide after Americans spent more on buying and selling weapons than anyone else on earth, the Small Arms Survey said...

U.S. gun sales have benefited from the country’s weapons- culture and regulations, according to the survey. A 10-year ban on U.S. assault-weapon sales expired in 2004.

“The production of civilian versions of assault rifles and high-caliber sniper rifles is mainly concentrated in the U.S., where the country’s gun culture embraces, and permissive regulations facilitate, the ownership of semi-automatic assault rifles and sniper rifles by civilians,” the report said.

"Assault weapons"?

"High-caliber sniper rifles"?

Oh, they must mean semi-automatic (one shot per trigger squeeze) firearms and scoped hunting rifles.

"Authorized journalist" Jonathan Tirone has served his anti-gun employer, New York mayor and 88% Bloomberg LP shareholder Mike Bloomberg well. Master must be pleased.

And the Small Arms Survey? They say you're known by the company you keep, so let's take a look at their partners.

Why surprise, surprise. Globalists and leftists. Naturally the list includes UN-NGO IANSA, headed by Rebecca Peters, the protege of another anti-gun billionaire, George Soros.

Here's Rebecca's take on self-defense, in response to an NRA advertisement that asked "“[S]hould you shoot this rapist before he cuts your throat?”:

“Women need to be protected by police forces, by judiciaries, by criminal justice systems. People who have guns for self-defense are not safer than people who don’t. . . . [H]aving a gun in that situation escalates the problem.”

And here's Rebecca's take on rifles, for those of you "sportsmen" who are content to sit on the sidelines as long as your ox isn't the one being gored:

Peters states that civilians should not have “rifles that they can kill someone at 100 meters distance, for example. There needs to be a much greater degree of proportionality in the firepower that’s available.”

Wait, she's not done:

Clearly, she said “single-shot rifles and shotguns” are all anyone needs to go hunting, one of the few lawful uses of firearms which she recognized. During the debate, she showed little concern for the Britons who had lost their right to compete with modern rifles and handguns.

That’s just too bad, Peters said. “So get another hobby,” she advised.

To recap: A "reporter" working for an anti-gun billionaire cites a "study" by an internationalist anti-gun group that uses pejorative terms for commonly-owned firearms in order to convince the readers that U.S. gun laws are too "permissive." And the average reader--and Bloomberg has millions of 'em (as do all the other "mainstream" outlets "reporting" on the survey)--will accept it on face value as objective news, rather than deceptive mass manipulation in the service of the global citizen disarmament cabal.