[SauronOfMordor]

Look, it's a term invented by the NAZI party in Germany in the 1930s.

The actual term was "Sturmgewehr" which wikipedia translates into "assault rifle" but literally translates as "storm rifle".

It's use is in the final "storming" of a position, where you have to have the ability to fire rapid suppressing fire as you charge the position. In the US military, this phase is called the "assault".

assault

(DOD) 1. The climax of an attack, closing with the enemy in hand-to-hand fighting. 2. In an amphibious operation, the period of time between the arrival of the major assault forces of the amphibious task force in the objective area and the accomplishment of the amphibious task force mission. 3. To make a short, violent, but well-ordered attack against a local objective, such as a gun emplacement, a fort, or a machine gun nest. 4. A phase of an airborne operation beginning with delivery by air of the assault echelon of the force into the objective area and extending through attack of assault objectives and consolidation of the initial airhead. See also assault phase; landing attack.

An "assault rifle" is a rifle used in the assault in the military (as opposed to legal) sense of the term. An "assault weapon" is whatever Sarah Brady says it is.

[muawiyah]

Sarah Brady is definitely an old battleaxe. On the other hand I was watching the Nazi channel on cable the other day. The program concerned weapons design for WWII. It was quite clear the Nazis were quite involved in making a lot of lightweight uglylooking autofire weapons for the ground troops.

Technically your translation is correct, but given the context of the weapon type, my understanding is "more" correct.

Actually, it's not at all surprising to find Sarah Brady picking up on Nazi jargon ~ all mind numbed, robot-like, knee-jerk Liberals are alike.