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Words are the most powerfull Assault Weapon ever devised by mankind.
An assault weapon is a rifle constructed with lots of plastic, and looks really cool, with lots of letters and numbers,and preferably an "X" in the name, oh yeah and a camo paint job.
I still don't get it. The Sandy Hook shooter was denied a legal weapons purchase so he murdered his mother to get her guns and the "Assault Weapon" she owned was also illegal in her state.
So the solution is yet more laws banning them?! How stupid are people?!
thats fine, but its your personal definition not Websters. Webster is the collective definition of a word or phrase that we all turn to at any given point of time. You can say assault means to dance to disco music but if the lexicon does not reflect it than its only your personal definition.
[quote=chucksnee;27426192]So, one does not have the ability to kill the other?
Well, if you're not good with your fists you better get good with a knife for self defense or you would have to actually work out and get in shape and maybe take some martial arts classes.
Killing from a distance isn't an excuse for being defenseless. Another crazy idea? You may have to treat others with respect and learn to get along.
The term assault wapon has changed. Words change and the idiots who keep yelling about it means this narrw old definiton are beaging a dead horse. Assault weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So words change, you not wanting them to change is not going to stop them from changing. And Assault rifle is one that has changed. live in the now.
Yep...now it simply means any firearm that looks scarrrryyyy.
The term was first coined by the Germans in WWII, to refer to a rifle-sized gun that could either fire single shots, or a series of them like a machine gun, at the flip of a switch.
The definition remained the same for fifty years, until American politicians trying to demonize firearms, announced that anything that evern LOOKED like an assault weapon, suddenly was one, whether or not it really was or not. Suddenly any rifle that was scary-looking to these people (and a great many rifles were scary-looking to them), became an "assault weapon", even if it had only the same capability as an ordinary plinking rifle. Unable to fire like a machine gun, they were now called machine guns anyway.
The confusion has gone on since then. Even when sensible people tried to point out how badly they had gotten the definition wrong, the paranoid ones started trying to make up new qualifications for a gun to be an "assault weapon", instead of simply admitting their error. Now if a gun has a flash hider, it was somehow an "assault weapon", as though the flash hider had anything to do with the gun's firing characteristics or lethality (it doesn't). Then if it had a handle mounted at a right angle behind the trigger, that somehow made it an "assault weapon", though that also had no effect on what the gun could do, other than making it a little harder for a trembling politician to accidentally drop. Same for those that had a hole through the stock, or a folding stock, or a bayonet lug.
At various times all these things abruptly became identifying characteristics of an "assault weapon", evn though genuine assault weapons never had most of them. (Note that some of the muskets of George Washington's time had bayonet lugs, and some had holes through the stock in various places).
"Assault weapon" used to be well defined, until politicians trying to lie about firearms seized on the term to push a failing agenda.
and the "Assault Weapon" she owned was also illegal in her state.
Her gun was perfectly legal in Connecticut, as it is in most states, even ultra-hysterical places like California. You've been listening to the mainstream media again, haven't you?
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So the solution is yet more laws banning them?! How stupid are people?!
We are just starting to see the answer to that question. And we'll go on seeing it for months, if not years.
Her gun was perfectly legal in Connecticut, as it is in most states, even ultra-hysterical places like California. You've been listening to the mainstream media again, haven't you?
We are just starting to see the answer to that question. And we'll go on seeing it for months, if not years.
I heard it was a standard Bushmaster AR-15 clone... and CT has a state AWB.
Not surprising if I'd heard it wrong from the media though.
I heard it was a standard Bushmaster AR-15 clone... and CT has a state AWB.
Not surprising if I'd heard it wrong from the media though.
I found the following with an online search of "connecticut gun laws."
In 1993, the legislature prohibited possessing, selling, or transporting assault weapons, with limited exceptions. The 1993 act also gave those who lawfully possessed an assault weapon before October 1, 1993, nine months to apply for a certificate of possession to continue to possess the weapon. The act made a number of other changes regarding assault weapons (PA 93-306).
1. Any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user or any of the following specified semiautomatic firearms: Algimec Agmi; Armalite AR-180; Australian Automatic Arms SAP Pistol; Auto-Ordnance Thompson type; Avtomat Kalashnikov AK-47 type; Barrett Light-Fifty model 82A1; Beretta AR-70; Bushmaster Auto Rifle and Auto Pistol; Calico models M-900, M-950 and 100-P; Chartered Industries of Singapore SR-88; Colt AR-15 and Sporter; Daewoo K-1, K-2, Max-1 and Max-2; Encom MK-IV, MP-9 and MP-45; Fabrique Nationale FN/FAL, FN/LAR, or FN/FNC; FAMAS MAS 223; Feather AT-9 and Mini-AT; Federal XC-900 and XC-450; Franchi SPAS-12 and LAW-12; Galil AR and ARM; Goncz High-Tech Carbine and High-Tech Long Pistol; Heckler & Koch HK-91, HK-93, HK-94 and SP-89; Holmes MP-83; MAC-10, MAC-11 Carbien type; Intratec TEC-9 and Scorpion; Iver Johnson Enforcer model 3000; Ruger Mini-14/5F folding stock model only; Scarab Skorpion; SIG 57 AMT and 500 Series; Spectre Auto Carbine and Auto Pistol; Springfield Armory BM59, SAR-48 and G-3; Sterling MK-6 and MK-7; Steyr AUG; Street Sweeper and Striker 12 revolving cylinder shotguns; USAS-12; USI Carbine, Mini-Carbine and Pistol; Weaver Arms Nighthawk; Wilkinson "Linda" Pistol.
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