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There is no such thing as an 'assault rifle'. It is a made up term.
by kyleblarson 6y ago
There is no such thing as an 'assault rifle'. It is a made up term.
- jeffbee 6y agoIf you're going to operate at the intersection of gun nuttery and prescriptive English usage, it would help you to be right. The US Army "Small Arms Identification Guide" defined the term at least 50 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.namesecurehost.com/gunfax/fstcp67.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20190904213732/http://031d26d.na...
- CyanBird 6y agoSad to see moderators not delete these kind of useless uninformed messages as they used to do just couple years ago
- rlt 6y agoI believe you are thinking of the term “assault weapon”, which was a term invented to help ban semi-automatic military-style rifles, that arguably aren’t significantly deadlier than other less scary looking semi-automatic rifles, but are politically more convenient to ban. “Assault rifle” is a valid term but it only refers to automatic rifles, which were already effectively banned for civilians. I don’t know whether that rifle (carried by a police officer) is automatic or semi-automatic.