'The Chosen,' if you recall, was based on the Chaim Potok novel and featured Robbie Benson's persuasive performance as a Hasidic Jew.
A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.
There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semiautomatic handguns and semiautomatic rifles.