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If it is used in assaults, as they are, it is an assault weapon.
"The firearms industry has countered by more accurately describing those firearms as “modern assault rifles.” AKA an assault weapon. I get it. Quit your whimpering.
If it is used in assaults, as they are, it is an assault weapon.
"The firearms industry has countered by more accurately describing those firearms as “modern assault rifles.” AKA an assault weapon. I get it. Quit your whimpering.
Then by that definition, pistols are "assault weapons", knives are "assault weapons", etc.
They keep repeating these monikers for the AR-15 for the same reason they still keep saying Kyle Rittenhouse carried a gun across state lines and he was a white supremacist.
Facts do not matter and if they repeat the lie long enough...most people are too lazy to investigate and will just take their words for it as truth.
This has been the media's M. O. for about the past 10 years....where ya been?
They keep repeating these monikers for the AR-15 for the same reason they still keep saying Kyle Rittenhouse carried a gun across state lines and he was a white supremacist.
Facts do not matter and if they repeat the lie long enough...most people are too lazy to investigate and will just take their words for it as truth.
This has been the media's M. O. for about the past 10 years....where ya been?
Same concept is being applied for those who keep alleging that there was cheating and the election was stolen..
But for the average person who doesn't live in the gun culture and goes to Wikipedia they would find
" The semi-automatic civilian AR-15 was introduced by Colt in 1963. The primary distinction between civilian semi-automatic rifles and military assault rifles is select fire. Military models were produced with firing modes, semi-automatic fire and either fully automatic fire mode or burst fire mode"
Gun Digest and Guns & Ammo are the ones who originally dubbed the ARs and other Kalashnikov clones Assault Weapons. You need to take your beef to the firearms press.
Sorry you don't have a clue
Guns Digest was referring to MILITARY, NOT CIVILIAN weapons
This is the latest word on true assault weaponry in use today by international military and law enforcement organizations. The authors report on the changing mission of these weapons and then test many of them during the preparation of exclusive performance reports. Coverage includes countries such as the U.S., Germany, Israel, Russia and South Africa. Students of the world's assault weaponry will find fresh information on trends and applications, as well as discussion and evaluation of the very latest firearms: Rifles, Submachine Guns, Crew-Served Machine Guns, Combat Shotguns - plus a very educated look into the 21st century.
Also, this edition contains 500 new photographs and illustrations.
Can't find a reference for Guns and Ammo but found most cicilian "assault weapons" references were from lib media and press
Aug 13, 2019 — It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate ...
Aug 12, 2019 — Assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines are weapons of war that have no place in America's communities and should be banned.
The claim: AR-15 rifles were used in 12 recent mass shootings ... as certain semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Apr 22, 2021
Jan 16, 2013 — It was the gun industry that. The July 1981 issue of Guns & Ammo. It was the gun industry that adopted the term “assault weapon,” an author ...
Jun 30, 2016 — One solution that became popular during the First World War was the submachine gun, which is a machine gun that fires pistol ammunition rather ...
Courage to Fight Gun Violence. ... weapons ban resulted in a marked decrease in the use of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines in crime.
For crying out loud, the 5.56 M-16 (the full auto version of the AR-15) was chosen by the military in part because it was less powerful than the .308/7.62 M-14 and the older .30-06 M1 that had been in use and was easier to handle (plus they could carry more ammo)
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