Do you actually know what an "assault rifle" is or do you just throw it around?

I love throwing my rifle around.

I am in the military. I'm a military police officer. An assault rifle is defined as this: any long gun that is fully automatic or a three round burst etc... That is fitted with a fixed magazine that is capable of holding large amounts of ammo, (200 round box fed)or is strip fed. Or, Any handgun that is fully automatic. End. Semi automatic weapons are not assault weapons. Basically, any of the high tech weapons that are full auto and are prohibited for public sale are assault weapons because they're very dangerous. But guns like the ak47 and the m16 m14 and a bushmaster an94 and things like that are not assault rifles if they are semi automatic. They would be if they were fully automatic, but they're not sold that way to they public. They're sold as semi autos. High tech stuff like the Andrea p9 and other high tech weapons developed this decade, are sub machine guns that are easily concealed and are assault weapons. But other than the high tech weapons, semi automatic versions of automatic rifles aren't assault weapons. All guns are meant to kill people and are meant to assault and hurt people. The government is trying to make it like we're playing with dangerous toys that need to be taken away and I disagree. Guns are meant to defend against other armed people. We can't let governments limit our ability to defend ourselves. I protect this country. And I support the citizens rights and want to preserve citizens rights so they may live a happy fulfilling life as an American. All the "assault weapon" garbage you hear from the media is just stuff made up by the government and by Obama and his campaign to limit guns. And it's a sorry excuse at that. This information accurate and to the best of my knowledge.

Yes

an assault rifle is a semi automatic rifle that is used as intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine Assault Rifle are the standard service rifles in most modern armies . Fully automatic the ability to fire one round per press on the trigger .

There's no such thing as "an assault rifle". Assault rifles, like cookies, come in many different shapes and sizes. Since Americans like to reduce every complex topic to the fewest words possible, assault rifles have been reduced to a mythical object that shoots multiple rounds in the shortest time possible, is shorter than a "regular" rifle, with a reduced stock and shortened barrel and a huge banana clip that holds a gazillion rounds.

Do you know what it feels like to be shot at? I do ...and I don't care how assault rifle is defined I just want them out of the hands of immature, untrained shooters* and all lunatics.

*There are hunters, collectors and sportsmen and, lastly, there are shooters. They are not the same people. Shooters think all you need to know to use a firearm is how to load it, how to release the trigger lock (if a gun has one) and where the trigger is.

In the real world an assault rifle is a weapon that is rifle caliber and able to shoot both fully automatic or semi-automatic mode.

In crazy liberal speak an assault weapon is a gun with a military appearance that they can use to divide and conquer those that might value freedom.

I know I wouldn't want to go into combat with any of the rifles on the defeated "assault rifle" ban list because none of them have automatic as a select fire option which is required to meet the military purpose of assault rifle.

Politicians misapply the term going for an emotional response because they detest rational thought. They thrive on emotion and perish under reason.

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Reagan, remembered as a defender of the Constitution and of gun rights, supported common sense gun restrictions that were compatible with the Second Amendment throughout his political career. He signed into law the Firearm Owners Protection Act in 1986, which banned ownership of any fully automatic rifles that were not already registered.

Reagan supported the the Brady Bill in the early 1990s. He supported a seven-day waiting period before a purchaser could take possession of a handgun, and had signed into law a 15-day cooling-off period as governor of California.

He believed that prohibitions on sales to felons, drug addicts and the mentally ill were necessary and needed a uniform standard across the country.

In 1994, Reagan supported the Assault Weapons Ban stating that he was convinced that the limitations imposed in this bill are absolutely necessary.

There is a military definition of Assault Rifle and a legal one. The two aren't even close.

I can't afford a real assault rifle. I have to settle for a cheap semiautomatic rifle instead! Sure, it's got a pistol grip but it only fires one shot for each pull of the trigger!

Yes, assault weapon and assault rifle are two different things though.

You mean assault weapon? Because that's what the government and people around here have been saying in posts, I know what an assault rifle is.