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To: Vermont Lt

An “assault rifle” is a fully automatic rifle firing an intermediate sized cartridge. A submachine gun is a fully automatic weapon which fires a pistol caliber round. The weapon in this case is probably a semi-automatic rifle, caliber unknown due to the ignorance of the reporters.


34 posted on 04/14/2015 7:18:53 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: ozzymandus

My mistake. I thought the difference was mag fed vs. belt fed.

In the original comment, I was trying to make fun of the headline. Most reporters would call my Remington 700 an assault weapon because it’s black.


40 posted on 04/15/2015 3:20:59 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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