Well, Assault Rifles, which are selective fire rifles offering automatic or burst fire as well as single shot fire, ARE effectively banned.
A private citizen can’t buy an assault rifle that was made after 1986, has to have a tax stamp, etc.
But the Left, in pursuit of its goals, is torturing our language so badly that any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine is now an “assault rifle.”
That’s why they invented the term “assault weapon”.