The first semiautomatic assault rifle was the Sturmgehwehr-44. This predated the M16A1 by 20 years.
It takes too long to say vier und vierzig.
Yup....and the Stg 44 was not invented by an infantryman.
So other than wrong gun, wrong nationality, wrong time period, wrong profession for the inventor, he really nailed it!
And Kalishnakov copied it. It became the AK-47, I believe. NOT an M16 or an AR.
Stupid liberals don’t get their facts straight, as usual, or they’re twisting the facts, as usual.
I’m not reading the crap of some Post reporter but is that the point they were trying to make, the “first” select fire assault weapon? Or was it some typical regular nonsense to be expected of the WP?
The US Government and US mainstream News has evolved into all lies 24/7.
The fact they have to lie about everything is all you need to know that they are up to nothing good.
You can’t have a country based on that and survive.
There’s never been an assault rifle in the history of firearms, but nice liberal talking point though.
“The first semiautomatic assault rifle was the Sturmgehwehr-44...” [MuttTheHoople, post 4]
Assault rifles are by definition selective fire, not semi-auto.
The original definition (which used appear in the DoD dictionary): individual weapon, magazine fed, selective fire, closed-bolt, chambers a cartridge of lesser power than the standard issue rifle.
The first small arm to fit that definition was the AVF-16 (aka Avtomat Fydorova), developed by Fedorov for the Czarist Russian military and adopted in 1916. It saw action in the subsequent Russian Civil War. Chambered 6.5x50SRmm Arisaka, the Imperial Japanese rifle cartridge, it generated far less kinetic energy than the 7.62x54Rmm M1891 Russian cartridge.