The term "military-'style' assault rifle" was invented by a gun control propagandist for the intent of confusing the public into believing that "if it looks like a machine gun, it must be a machine gun".
"Assault weapon" was already a defined term. It referred to a military weapon that is capable of selective fire. A switch can go from safety, to semi-auto, to full-automatic, and in some cases, three shot burst. But tagging "military-style" to the existing term gave the false impression that common, semiautomatic rifles were actually military. It allowed the propagandists to brand them as "weapons of war", "mass murder machines", and even "weapons of mass destruction".
I was already illegal to sell automatic weapons (machine guns) to the general public. The gun control propagandists knew that.
Their efforts to nullify the Second Amendment failed in the Supreme Court, so they embarked on a different tactic, which was to ban certain common guns. Their goal is to ban civilian ownership of guns and they'll do it by hook or by crook.
When Ronald Reagan and Jim Brady were shot, it was with a.22 cal revolver. What did Brady do? He knew that banning.22 cal revolvers was out of the question, so he set out to ban certain common rifles with the intend of setting a precedent. If he could succeed in getting the courts to allow a small set of everyday guns to be banned, the list could be expanded.
What's interesting is, all long guns combined (every type of shotgun and rifle) account for something like 4% of all firearm related homicides, and those scary looking, black, "assault rifley" things are a small subset of that. 300 or so people a year might be killed with those kinds of guns. So why is it treated as a national emergency to ban them?
First of all, its political speech and not intended to be taken literally in most cases.
That said, lets examine the generally accepted definitions of an assault rifle.
1: It must be capable of selective fire.
2: It must have an intermediate-power cartridge: more power than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle.
3: Its ammunition must be supplied from a detachable box magazine.[5]
4: It must have an effective range of at least 300 metres (330 yards).
The AR-15 fulfills every one of those criteria except for the select fire. The Glock you mentioned earlier fail on the cartridge, select fire and effective range so the fact that you even brought it up as a "reasonable comparison" is silly and shows your lack of understanding about basic firearms.
So, lets just consider for a moment what the difference is between a standard AR-15 and an assault rifle. The selective fire capability... The ability to choose between single and burst/automatic. Not a great deal of difference if you ask me. Furthermore, how could you overcome this to achieve a burst or automatic fire option with a standard AR?
How about bump fire? Install a bumpfire modification (or use a method of shooting that achieves the same result) and the AR-15 would fulfill every criteria to be categorized as an assault rifle.
I know a lot about guns but I'm not a liberal, so this makes me laugh because you don't leave a choice on your Pole that says I know a lot about guns but I'm not a liberal either. Haha. I have a few family members that work at the same place in which they manufacture guns, my dad has a class A firearm permit which allows him to have a fully automatic firearm, which is I'm assuming is what the Liberals referred to as an assault rifle. I think the general rule of thumb is if it's a fully automatic weapon it's an assault rifle. However I think the argument it's kind of a silly one due to the fact that if you get shot by a handgun you're not going to be any less dead than if you get hit by a bullet from an M4 (M16), or an Uzi. The bullet use is the same kind of bullet a lot of the time, and if the bullet is a larger caliber it's not going to kill you anymore then a smaller caliber, unless we're talking about the 22 or a pellet gun or something of course then in some cases a bullet can fail to kill someone but in most cases it's a 9 mm and whether that comes from an Uzi or a handgun you're going to be just as dead either way. The strength of the bullet isn't different but the amount of bullets unloaded as of course is different, so if you really wanted to you could probably take out more people faster but even a handguns clip holds an entire clip full of bullets so if you wanted to kill a crowd of people you could still do that with a handgun oh, it would just take you about 10 seconds longer.
It’s because they don’t know the actual criteria for a firearm to qualify as an assault rifle and mistakenly believe AR stands for assault rifle. It does not. The “A” stands for Armalite, the company who first developed it. They went belly up and sold the patent to Colt, who now owns the name AR-15. This is why any AR platform rifle not manufactured by Colt is not called AR-15, but given some other model name by the manufacturer.
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They are the same crowd who refer to tactical pens as “assault pens”.
They are ignorant when it comes to discussing weaponry. They like to put the word “assault” behind any weapon they think is scary looking.
Anything that upsets their plans to take over is an "assault this" or "assault that". Gotta have those magic scary words.
They haven't even figured out the difference between semi-auto and fully-auto (yet alone single-action).
An assault rifle is any kind of military rifle that has a switch (normally located on the side of the weapon) that allows the operator to select between three different firing modes: semi-automatic, fully automatic, or three-round bursts.
Functionally, these are normally only used in tactical or military settings, so they are not very common (or at all) among civilian populations.
Note that misunderstanding of this term is why you hear gun control pundits talk about “assault rifles” and how they’re responsible for civilian killings or mass shootings.
In actuality, assault rifles typically have NOT been used in these events.
Additionally, the “AR” for AR-15s and the like does not stand for an assault rifle. Instead, it stands for “ArmaLite Rifle,” which is the company that first created the AR-15 and its cousins.
An AR-15 is a semi-automatic weapon, not an assault rifle or a fully automatic firearm/machine gun.
ref AGA
Because pistols, having a short barrel and, like you said, easy to conceal, are handguns and are generally more difficult to obtain and have more restrictions on them. Rifles do not have those restrictions since they are used for hunting and are legitimate tools on a farm.
But an _A_ssualt _R_ifle ("AR" as in AR-15) is a rifle not meant for use on a farm or for hunting. It's a military weapon designed to efficiently kill humans. There is no need for the general population to have one. Unfortunately, legal access to these weapons is too easy. And that's a problem.
Assault rifle is direct translation from German. StG-44 was first intermediate cartridge rifle. StG-44 = Sturm (Assault) Gewehr (Rifle) was called MP-44 (Maschinenpistole 1944) before Hitler wanted more dangerous name for this weapon and called it StG
Ar-15, M16, M4... Ak-47/74/100.. are intermediate cartridge rifles and liberals love Nazi nomenclature
They lack a proper understanding of firearms being that the liberal ideology isn't as favorable to firearms as the conservative is. "Assault Rifle" has the more political connotation that the 'rifle' is used to 'assault' and in their minds it brings up images of M4A1s.
Everyone that understands weapons, understands that bladed weapons can be much more deadly than handguns.. and handguns much more deadly than rifles. But this doesn't make sense to someone that's generally against weapons and particularly firearms.
https://crime-data-explorer. app. cloud. gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend
That says it all, people who don't own guns are the ones most in favor of banning them and they fear a type of firearm (rifles) that were used in about 1% of aggravated assaults, homicide, rape, and robberies reported in 2020. Most liberal states don't participate in NIBRS which causes us to have to rely on the very outdated UCR system to track their crime rates, but departments on the other hand reported their crime rates to the FBI for us.
They are classified as assault rifles because of the characteristics they have. Military style, high capacity magazines, and a fair part of baloney. Also a Glock with a 30 round magazine does not make it accurate or stable firing platform at a high rate of fire as a rifle has for most people.
It’s a generic term used by civilians and media for pretty much any semi auto or auto rifle that is used by the military.
it’s a term used in other countries.
In this case it’s wrong, saying that it’s a bollox word.
The AR is Armalite Rifles.
An Assault Rifle would be full Auto with selectable to semi, rounds (R/A).
Its also personally a stupid term.
Also if those are firing.22 or.223 then they are legal in the UK (.223 single shot only)
semantic drift. Just the evolution of words and how we use them. languages are ultimately a utility and seeing how you and any reasonable individual would recognized "assault rifle" as being your rifle. It's just semantically putting connections from words to objects with everyone roughly being on the same page.
They figure (and probably correctly) if they can ban a semi-automatic rifle that looks like an assault rifle then later they can ban all semi automatic rifles. After that they will get all the rest of the rifles and shotguns banned. Guess what gets banned next?
Here is how liberals actually see the concept of "assault rifles"... Go read and learn something so you don't look stupid.
https://mises.org/wire/latest-panic-over-assault-weapons
https://mises.org/power-market/problem-assault-weapons
They think sticking their head in a hole in the ground or up someone's ass is the exact same thing, can't tell the difference.
Semi auto's are not assault weapons, far as I'm concerned it has to be full auto to be considered that.
Ask any soldier which they'd rather have in a war zone, a real assault weapon or the civilian version that isn't one.
Because unlike you, they can read?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle
Only some models (illegally moded and/or fully auto) are classed as "assault rifles".
and you don't know much about ar vs glock either. it's the speed of which the ar fires vs the speed of which a glock fires along with the distance and type of ammo each take. the ar-15's are good for long distance and sniper type attacks an ar-12 is good for raw stopping power since that would use a 12 guage bullet. The barrel length on the ar has a minimum requirement of 18" and those glocks use a much shorter barrel. it's true most liberals don't know their ass from their elbows when it comes to guns but a lot also do. and just for the record ar doesn't stand for assault rifle like liberals think it stands for armalite (had to look up the correct spelling because i always screw up the spelling)
furthermore an ar12 for example can use a 00 buckshot and an ar15 can use a.22 or a.223 where as a glock can range anywhere from.375 or.38 to.45 and even.50 depending on the glock and type of handgun
You DO understand that any weapon with more than one round in the magazine is an assault weapon? AK, AR, Glock, even revolvers can be classified as an assault weapon when it's used for assault.
But the designation of "assault weapon" is usually assigned to anything that could have been used in warfare.
Ar15s are based on the concept of a rifle capable of semi and automatic fire with a 30 round magazine firing an intermediate round, its a ww2 term and as the AR15 is designed to do this it fits as the civilian AR15 and military m16 are the exact same even with interchangeable parts except automatic fire capability.
In fact the orginial designation for the M16 was the AR15.
They the DNC/liberals know bugger all about firearms, there are many Democrat voters who are knowledgeable about firearms but the politicians are woefully ignorant and use emotional language and images to sway voters if they looked at the facts they would see that more people are killed with screwdrivers and other hand tools than all of the firearms together.
Anything you wouldn't use, to hunt, is considered an assault rifle. you're KILLING PEOPLE
Remember one of the commandments that Christians take oh so dearly in the bible, right? THOU SHOU NOT KILL
wheres that? Wheres that when it comes to "CHRISTIANITY"
Liberals don't. The media does. Not the liberal media. Just the media. I guess they figure any rifle is an assault rifle if you assault someone with it.
They think A stands for assault and R stands for Rifle... rather than Armalite.
Seriously I've talked to people that think AR stands for Assault Rifle.
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