[William Tell]

Billthedrill said: An assault rifle is a rifle-caliber firearm with select-fire capabilities; i.e. is capable of full-auto fire. An assault "weapon" is anything that somebody who doesn't like how your firearm looks says it is.

You saved me some typing.

To believe that the editors of the New York Times don't know the difference is to suggest that they should all be out of work and on welfare.

But it is more likely that they DO know the difference and are purposely obscuring the truth from their readers. For that they deserve to lose their jobs, to suffer tarring and feathering, and to be run out of town on a rail. For a ring-side seat to this, I would pay good money.

[Red Steel]

But it is more likely that they DO know the difference and are purposely obscuring the truth from their readers. For that they deserve to lose their jobs, to suffer tarring and feathering, and to be run out of town on a rail.

Correct. It's an effective tool in the liberal and media play book to bastardize words to fit their agenda. To name a couple of other words that have been bastardized in the last 30 years:

stalking
swiftboating