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Care to post the link where any US armed force has that defined as their officially assigned terminology? I'm on .MIL (not at this moment) and can't find it anywhere.

Here is the post of the factual history of the terminology and you will not the federal govt has no part in it. Never mind the military.

Please post only facts and label your opinions as such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon

[Buffalo Head]

As the United States Defense Department’s Defense Intelligence Agency book "Small Arms Identification and Operation Guide" explains, “assault rifles” are “short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.”[21]

In other words, assault rifles are battlefield rifles which can fire automatically.[22]

Weapons capable of fully automatic fire, including assault rifles, have been regulated heavily in the United States since the National Firearms Act of 1934.[23]

Taking possession of such weapons requires paying a $200 federal transfer tax and submitting to an FBI background check, including ten-print fingerprints.[24] [21]

Defense Intelligence Agency, Small Arms Identification and Operation Guide - Eurasian Communist Countries 105 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1988). [22]

Because the guns are "selective fire," the shooter can flip a selector switch to choose between automatic and semiautomatic fire, sometimes with the additional option of tri-burst fire.

[23] National Firearms Act, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 (1934).

[24] 26 U.S.C. §§ 5811-5812, 5845 (1988). As of May 1986, production of new automatics (including assault rifles) for the civilian market became completely illegal, although there have been some disputes among the lower federal courts about the constitutionality of the prohibition. SeeFarmer v. Higgins, 907 F.2d 1041 (11th Cir. 1990), rev'g 1:87-CV-440-JOF (1989), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1047 (1991); but cf. United States v. Dalton, 990 F.2d 1166 (10th Cir. 1993); United States v. Rock Island Armory, Inc., 773 F. Supp 117 (C.D. Ill.), app. dism'd, 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 19505 (7th Cir. Aug. 13, 1991).

NRA link, here: http://www.nraila.org/glossary.aspx defines "Assault Rifles"

Also see http://gunfax.com/aw.htm

I post facts. Please do likewise.

Then you find yourself in a hole, it is best to stop digging.