[School of Rational Thought]

Pretty much any semiautomatic rifle that looks "scary" is considered an assault rifle.

Let's be clear that is what the vulgar left "alleges" to be assault rifles. The current AWB is based on mainly "cosmetic attributes" rather than functional attributes.

Assault rifles generally have three attributes, shot selector, midrange rounds, and large capacity magazines.

The vulgar left is not about to care about facts. I read a post today where a Walter PPK was referred to as a "powerful weapon"! Of course, the PPK fires a .380 round or what is sometimes referred to as a 9mm short.


The second amendment was about self-protection against tyranny, in particular the government (see Federalist Papers).

Assault weapons would be consistent with an armed militia for this purpose.

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Let's be clear that is what the vulgar left "alleges" to be assault rifles. The current AWB is based on mainly "cosmetic attributes" rather than functional attributes. Assault rifles generally have three attributes, shot selector, midrange rounds, and large capacity magazines.

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I read his question as asking what was considered an assault weapon under the Clinton ban ("What exactly did the assault weapons ban of Clinton do? What weapons count as assault weapons?"). Under the clinton ban, there are so many factors that are involved that even the BATF has a hard time determining whether something is an assault weapon (you can have up to X foreign parts as long as it is under Y percent, but it can't have a pig-sticker or detachable mag if X condition. It's actually more confusing than most computer programming LOL.

As for what makes an assault weapon in real (non-clinton) terms, I agree with you entirely. Things like fire rate selectors classify them.

soap box, ballot box, ammo box... The ballot box and soap box don't appear to be working too well though :)