what is a assault gun? I never have seen a gun marked as such.?

Never take what the media says for granted. Never.

The only true asault weapon it there is a gun the Germans made in the 30s and 40s. They called it a stogenhamer I'd something like that. The word literally translated to assault rifle. So an AK-47 is not an assault rifle, an AR-15 is not an asault rifle, and any gun that is fully automatics with the exepton of the German gun I mentioned is not an assault rifle. The corect tearm for all of those fully automatic weapons is fully automatic weapon. Same has a hunting rifle is a hunting rifle or sporting rifle. A pistol is a pistol. A semi automatic 9mm is not any diferent from a semi automatic 50 cal pistol. They are the same functional parts with diferent size bullets. By definition an asault weapon can be a baseball bat if I want it to be. All I have to do is hit somebody with it and it's an assault weapon. All the government is doing is trying to ban features similar to what the military has. We have the second amendment so we can fight our government if we need to. We will not win with handguns and sporting rifles. We will only win if we have the same caliber of guns that the government has including armored choppers and tanks.

The media is talking about Assault weapons, not assault rifles. There is a different. However, they are both made up terms. The government has their own set rules to determine what an assault weapon is. They have to have one of the following features:

Bayonet lug

Detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds

Pistol Grip

Flash suppressor

There's a ton other features I just can't really remember them. Basically what the media and congress calls assault weapons is basically the cosmetic features. Does a pistol grip really make a gun more deadly? Or, when's the last time you've heard of someone murdering someone with a bayonet?

Watch this video. It's kind of long but it's really informative and good, especially if you are strongly for gun rights like I am.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDglpt8hpyg

Basically an " assault gun " is a political term derived by people that don't even know which end of the gun the bullet comes out of! :)

'Assault weapon is a term that politicians, (who usually can't be depended upon

to figure out which end the bulket comes out of), thinks 'looks too mean'.

Case in point Sen. Diane Feinstein, (Prominent anti gunner),

recently proposed new legislation because the new weapons, (at the recent incident),

were "far more deadly and used more powerful cartridges" than those used previously

, (at Columbine), when the cartridge was precisely the same NATO 5.56mm,

and the rifle, the same AR 15 clone with possible minor cosmetic differences..

An "assault rifle", of course, would be an NFA item that is characterized by a select fire component and the ability to fire fully automatically or in burst mode.

An "assault weapon" is apparently a modern sporting weapon that bears a cosmetic resemblance to assualt rifles.

An "assault gun", I guess, would be what some ******** in New York, Chicago, L.A. or politically similar venue who is afraid of his/her shadow, has ZERO functional understanding of firearms or how to enjoy and employ them responsibly, can not fathom that anyone WOULD actually be able to enjoy firearms responsibly and safely and thinks that a barrel shroud is a really terrible thing calls modern sporting firearms.

the media is a bunch of ignorant morons who go after stories that will generate the most attention, even if that involves bending truths and reporting some false facts (given to them by the anti gun campaign who will lie in court to get their way) and over dramatizing reality.

if they can call a gun "assault" or claim it's a "machine gun" regardless of whether it's correct or not, they will do that, because news reports about assault rifles and machine guns will generate more viewers than news reports about sporting rifles.

Many, many years ago when I was a brand new E2 I had a Navy Gunner say that the original assault weapon was the first repeating rifle. One can only imagine the impact it had on the first group it was used against.

It wasn't until the Iran Contra affair that I remember the term "assault" weapon used; prior to that it was always "military style" weapons.

* Actually legally its any Gun that could be used, or is used to assault a person, or persons.* Think about it.*

Guns that scare liberals. Not that they are scared of them, they just don't think you should be allowed to own them as you are not lockstep in their agenda.