The article reminds me of a picture in one of my WW II history books. It shows a ranger springing from cover, and in his right hand is an M-1 Garand. He is holding it back of the trigger guard, and parallel in front of him. Well, the Garand must be an assault rifle if a ranger is using it to attack the enemy. By the way, how many people, even for a moment, would be able to grasp a Garand by the pistol grip of the stock and raise it off the ground?
Not me, even in my prime.
A friend who was a Marine on Guadalcanal once said, ‘We assaulted the HELL out of them Japs!’ So I guess an ‘03 Springfield is an ‘assault weapon’, too.