I thought “Assault Rifle” was a term coined by Robin Williams in The Survivors because his wife was upset that he brought machine guns home.
LOL the left just cannot help themselves.
The media will push this to take Libya and the financial problems off the page
It actually is a military term, going back to the Sturmgewehr Storm Rifle, Storm as in storm/assault a position. But it's defined as a fully automatic rifle firing an intermediate power cartridge. Intermediate between a full power cartridge, like a .308/7.62x51 and a pistol caliber, like 9mm or .45 ACP. If it fired a pistol cartridge, it would be a submachine gun, or machine pistol.
An "Assault Weapon" is any gun the grabbers want to ban.. this month.