The FAL in the picture needs a flash-hider ....
It’s pretty evident much of gun control is based on ignorance.
Townhall’s video of Soledad O’Brien castigating John Lott for suggesting people benefit from semi-automatic weapons proves that most people don’t even know what that means.
To such people, big scary black guns that sound almost like machine guns are bad, after all it’s SEMI-automatic, that’s got to be close right?
Not assault rifle. Defense rifle.
But whatever happened to the BAR?
Then there’s Bill O’Reilly’s definition...bazookas, mortars and tanks.
I am building my own version of a rifle, it shifts on its own and will be called a Peterbilt.
So technically its a semi-auto.
If I’m not mistaken before the assault weapons ban was passed Miss America (Pelosi) and another nutjob demorat went through a gun book and selected what they considered Assault weapons very scientific. That was under Bubba Klinton.
nit - it has to be at least semi-auto....you were correct about auto but a muzzle loader wouldn’t be much of a fire team tool.
Assault Rifle is an actual military designation. Involves a semi-automatic/automatic weapon firing an intermediate cartridge, see Sturmgewehr, AK-47, M-16, etc.
Assault Weapon is a weasel term created by gun controller types. It is defined by the legislator writing the law.
I have a rather interesting book in converting Military rifles to sporting rifles. Bought it before the madness of 1968 (which we are again seeing now).
It shows EVIL 5 shot bolt action rifles being transformed into “good” blessed 5 shot hunting rifles.
it also shows a M-1 Carbine and Garand going through the transformation.
Then, after the 1968 Gun Control Act became law, the EVIL 5 shot bolt action rifles were still considered EVIL after the transformation to sporting rifles, and could not be imported because they were “Military surplus”. Police surplus were OK.