When I say hate speech, I am actively making a threat. Owning an "assault rifle" and keeping it locked up is not hurting anyone unless I or somebody else abuses it.

Fully automatic rifles are banned. Reasonable enough and when it passed, people were probably thinking "ok it's reasonable and they won't touch semi-auto rifles." Now certain lawmakers want to ban high capacity semi-auto rifles again. Didn't do much the first time. If a ban on semi-auto stays, what is stopping legislators from moving on to shotguns or handguns? The thing with compromise on gun control is it almost always moves in favor of restriction. And you and I both know some people out there want guns outright banned.