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To: Brian Griffin
"hose who tried to use guns as assault weapons have been pushing up poppies in Flanders since the middle of World War I."

Funny, but not historically accurate. The first actual "Assault Weapon" was actually called that, the Sturmgewehr of 1944 (StG-44) was the first mass-produced intermediate caliber, select-fire rifle. Its owners are buried in Belgium and East Prussia. The AK-47 and the M-16 are its progeny and very widely used all over the world, so mass burials have been conducted pretty well everywhere except possibly Antarctica since WWII.

What our dear Democrats call "Assault Rifles", aren't.

10 posted on 05/28/2021 5:04:50 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Chainmail

“StG is an abbreviation of Sturmgewehr. According to one account, the name was chosen personally by Adolf Hitler for propaganda reasons and means ‘assault rifle’ as in ‘to assault an enemy position’, although some sources dispute that Hitler had much to do with coining the new name besides signing the order.”

“Originally known as the MP 43 (Machine Pistol) for Nazi political reasons, it was renamed the ‘Sturmgewehr 44’” after its successful introduction into battle on the Eastern Front. It introduced the concept of using a short cartridge with limited range in order to permit controllable automatic fire and a compact weapon”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StG_44

Adolf Hitler was even nuttier in 1944 than Joe Biden is in 2021.


19 posted on 05/28/2021 5:36:35 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Chainmail

Furthermore, George Washington (!) contemplated a large purchase of Puckle Guns, high-capacity large-caliber rapid-fire weapons - while he declined due to production capacity limitations, he was familiar with the concept.


21 posted on 05/28/2021 6:08:56 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask why it wants to eat our face.)
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