Its a common question among those who don’t own firearms or aren’t into them. We need to be able to answer this question without hostility if we expect to win the war.
Purrcival, as others have posted the definition of assault weapon is very fluid. The very term is used by the left because it lets them paint certain guns as evil without getting specific. Essentially whatever gun they don’t like that particular day gets the label.
The guns most often labeled as ‘assault weapons’ are no different in function then other guns, they simply look different. They are also significantly less powerful then most hunting rifles.
If you want to start talking need, perhaps we should ask why people need the internet, cars, homes, heck people don’t really need more than one pair of shoes.
IMO the worst part is the pistol mags. Nearly all pistols have over 10 round mags by default and it’s a real pain to have to go to 10. They simply shrunk the pistols and added the firepower during the AWB which made up for it a little bit.
The whole reason the .40 came into popularity was the AWB.
The problem with the new talk is they are going to try to ban anything that even accepts a full size mag. That is the ‘poison pill’ on this, but that is what they want.