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Enough Nonsense; What is an "Assault Rifle"?
Forgotten Weapons ^ | 2024-03-16 | Ian McCollum

Posted on 03/16/2024 6:58:46 AM PDT by Salman

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1 posted on 03/16/2024 6:58:46 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

We need to not be so smug and talking down to people about this. Dems do not care about tight definitions; any black thing that makes loud noises and can kill everyone in a football stadium in five seconds needs to be banned.

They are doing it by spreading fear and concern. Scared people can be panicked into dumb actions.

We need to take their ignorant drama seriously.


2 posted on 03/16/2024 7:05:57 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Salman

The most dangerous thing in the last 100 years as far as loss of human life is leftist governments. The leftists need to be denigrated at every opportunity.


3 posted on 03/16/2024 7:09:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: lurk

“Dems do not care about tight definitions; any black thing that makes loud noises and can kill everyone in a football stadium in five seconds needs to be banned.”

That is evident of the proposed laws introduce in Kolorado. They are pretty much banning everything to include severe restrictions to CCP locations.


4 posted on 03/16/2024 7:16:55 AM PDT by grcuster
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To: Salman

Something that could be a stage prop for Rambo.


5 posted on 03/16/2024 7:22:54 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Salman

I own a .54 caliber blackpowder, muzzle loading, flintlock rifle which my arthritic hands can load and fire at the rate of about three rounds per minute. I wonder if that would be considered an “assault rifle”? I guess maybe it would have been in 1770.


6 posted on 03/16/2024 7:43:28 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: Salman

any gun painted black apparently
LMAO


7 posted on 03/16/2024 7:45:20 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Salman
"What is an "Assault Rifle"?

That's a rifle that has been used in an assault.. No other definition makes any sense...

8 posted on 03/16/2024 7:49:13 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: kawhill

Three rounds a minute is pretty good. IIRC that is the rate of fire a well trained soldier should be able to do during the horse and musket error.


9 posted on 03/16/2024 7:49:20 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Salman

Assault rifle has always been classified as a “select fire” weapon- with the ability to select single fire, semi automatic (or burst fire mode) and full automatic

“Assault rifle Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Feb 7, 2024 · : any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire. “


10 posted on 03/16/2024 7:52:05 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Salman

Coined by the Germans as a Sturmgewher STG-44.


11 posted on 03/16/2024 7:53:03 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Salman

Guns killing people = 0
Abortions killing people = 99.6%

It’s not the tool it’s the person.
If we use their argument then scalpels kill 99.6% of people so we need to ban them.


12 posted on 03/16/2024 7:54:09 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: lurk
Yours is a naive post. Rats don't care about specifics or truth. Their objective is to outlaw private ownership of firearms, period. They use emotionally laden terms and will continue to do so regardless how often we school them.

They're mentally ill and refuse to admit it. And they will always push their insane agenda.

13 posted on 03/16/2024 7:55:56 AM PDT by LouAvul (If America will repent of its wickedness and return to Christ, He will forgive and restore. )
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To: Salman

It is something the government wants for killing citizens but they do not wants citizens to have to defend against such murders by the government.


14 posted on 03/16/2024 7:58:45 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Salman

Semi-auto rifles have been available to US citizens since the 1903 Winchester was introduced, then the Model 8 Remington with an extended magazine in 1906.
During the 1960s, 70s, most of the 1980s the hysteria was over handguns. Actress Lee Grant, in 1981, on ABC’s Good Morning America stood up, poked holes in the air with her finger and screamed...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”

Then, in the mid 1980s, came the MacDonald’s massacre and the anti-gun radicals found a new target, Semi-auto rifles. Don’t worry. Once they get a ban that will stick for semi auto rifles, they will be back for the .50 cal single shot rifles and their original target, HANDGUNS!


15 posted on 03/16/2024 7:59:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Salman

Assault Rifle is a specific item (select-fire rifle), but the term “assault weapon” is basically meaningless, but it sounds scary and makes proglodytes wet themselves.


16 posted on 03/16/2024 8:02:11 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: kawhill

When the democrats thought they had a ban on semi-auto rifles they did not turn off the lights and go home. They immediately found a new target, “.50 cal rifles that can bring down an airplane!”
One reporter went into a gun shop and was horrified to find lots of .50 cal rifles for sale! All muzzle loaders.


17 posted on 03/16/2024 8:03:21 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Disambiguator
Assault Rifle is a specific item (select-fire rifle), but the term “assault weapon” is basically meaningless, but it sounds scary and makes proglodytes wet themselves.

Just what the video said. But the video also showed some interesting examples.

18 posted on 03/16/2024 8:05:00 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: LouAvul

***They use emotionally laden terms***

SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL!
ARMY SURPLUS WAR RIFLE.
Plastic framed pistol for airline hijackings.
EXPLODING BULLETS.
COP KILLER BULLETS.
As-s-s-ault rifle
As-s-s-ault pistol...
.50 Caliber Sniper Rifle that can bring down a passenger aircraft!

All names designed to frighten the public.


19 posted on 03/16/2024 8:08:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Salman

Assault weapon definition:

Any weapon used in an assault.


20 posted on 03/16/2024 8:10:47 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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