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"Assault rifle" is a translation of the German word "Sturmgewehr". It was coined during WWII to refer specifically to the StG-44, a medium-sized rifle that fired an intermediate cartridge and was capable of full-auto fire. Later, other rifles with similar characteristics came to be known as "assault rifles". But if you want an "exact" definition of "Assault rifle", it refers only to that one model, the StG-44.
Calling any scary-looking gun an "assault rifle" is like calling all photocopying machines "Xerox machines". Most of them aren't.
The left likes to redefine words to suit their agenda. They’ve redefined man, woman, family and marriage, amongst others. Assault weapon? Meant to appeal to ignorance and emotion in their sheeple. Putting into law doesn’t make it real, only legal. And just because something’s legal doesn’t make it right, nor does being illegal make something wrong.
No one on this forum will be able to provide a definitive or legal definition. When the time comes, and it will at some point, the government will decide what an assault weapon is. Hopefully it will be a clear statement and will be modified and amended as gun manufacturers try to get around it with after-market modifications.
No one on this forum will be able to provide a definitive or legal definition. When the time comes, and it will at some point, the government will decide what an assault weapon is. Hopefully it will be a clear statement and will be modified and amended as gun manufacturers try to get around it with after-market modifications.
Yes because it's all about the cosmetics with zero knowledge of function.
I have a couple ruger 10/22 rifles. When our sons were teenagers I gave each of them a .22 rifle. Ruger 10/22 seemed to be the most popular small rifle, and they were great for teenagers learning to handle a rifle.
But they take a magazine.
If having a magazine defines a rifle to be an 'assault' weapon, then I guess a .22 rifle fits that definition?
I have a couple ruger 10/22 rifles. When our sons were teenagers I gave each of them a .22 rifle. Ruger 10/22 seemed to be the most popular small rifle, and they were great for teenagers learning to handle a rifle.
But they take a magazine.
If having a magazine defines a rifle to be an 'assault' weapon, then I guess a .22 rifle fits that definition?
I guess. I have a 22 that I use for rabbits, it has a magazine.
Assault weapon is a bull**** political term. Made up by hopelessly and terminally stupid hoplophobes that know exactly nothing about guns. It was first coined in the mid 80's. Used by anti gun morons to purposefully conflate full auto, select fire (true assault RIFLES) and semiautomatic rifles to others who are just as ignorant of firearm functions. These are the morons that get their firearm knowledge from the terminally stupid Hollywood actors and their movies.
Remember ignorance can be cured thru education and experience. Stupid is to the bone, and stupid should hurt.
This^
I would add that to have people who know little to nothing about firearms writing policy and laws pertaining to firearms is the biggest folly this society could ever perpetrate.
No one on this forum will be able to provide a definitive or legal definition.
I just did, a few posts before yours.
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When the time comes, and it will at some point, the government will decide what an assault weapon is. Hopefully it will be a clear statement and will be modified and amended as gun manufacturers try to get around it with after-market modifications.
And it will still be illegal to ban or restrict them. Just as it was in 1994-2004. But the Democrats don't care. They sill keep placing unconstitutional restrictions on them, for as long as the Judicial System lets them get away with it... or until they all get voted out of office, whichever comes first.
1) Hitler coined the the term because it sounded tougher/scarier than "submachine pistol."
2) Gun manufacturers/trade pubs of the US in the 70s and 80s started marketing semiautomatic rifles with that verbage, in order to woo the Guns 'N' Ammo crowd into buying merchandise.
3) Politicians in the late 80s/early 90s realize they can use the term to gin up fear. Stuck with it ever since, because they were right and it does gin up fear.
That's the timeline of the term and getting it applied to semiautomatic rifles.
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