>>I think you're mixing up "assault rifle" - a very real term, with a very real defintion - with "assault weapon"<<
I am well aware of the real, technical, and honest, meanings of these words. I am speaking of the dangers and outright foolishness of falling into a trap the gun-grabbers have laid when we carelessly use their own terms, terms that are hand-crafted to turn the uneducated and unthinking public against the important right to keep and bear arms, if not all at once, then by increments.
My apologies.
I was responding to this:
The term "assault rifle" is an ideo-political term that was coined by hoplophobic gun-grabbers
With all due respect, that is not the case. "Assault Rifle" comes from the German "Sturmgewehr", which translates to "Storm rifle" or "assault rifle". As I'm sure you know, the Sturmgewehr was a WWII selective fire weapon, chambered for a 7.92x33mm cartridge.
Gun-grabbers didn't have anything to do with it.
Certainly , they've attempted to co-opt the term, and re-define it to mean "Any semi-automatic rifle we don't like."
If you said "assault weapon", rather than "assault rifle", your statement would have been dead-on.
I am speaking of the dangers and outright foolishness of falling into a trap the gun-grabbers have laid when we carelessly use their own terms
I agree, 100%. E.G. The term "Assault weapon" should not be used, unless it is in quotes, and preceeded by "so-called". However, "assault rifle" is not a gun-grabbers' term. They simply one of many which they mis-use.