[Billthedrill]

Ragbourn said the term "assault weapon" was coined by the gun industry years ago as a marketing tool.

A particularly outrageous and bold-faced lie. The term was coined by gun-control advocates to attempt to create a problem that didn't and still doesn't really exist. The entire body of the fraudulent and ineffective "Assault Weapons Ban" was written around this little rhetorical scam.

[andyk]

Ragbourn said the term "assault weapon" was coined by the gun industry years ago as a marketing tool.

I was amazed to read that line. Accuse the opposition of doing what you actually did, and the opposition can be made to look foolish when trying to refute it. It's a pretty good tactic - I'm not surprised at all that an anti-gunner would stoop to using it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***A particularly outrageous and bold-faced lie. ***

Actually that is not true. I have some old magazines (Guns and Ammo and others) that used the terms way back in the 1970’s and early 80’s. G&A put out several special issues titled ASSAULT RIFLES before the ban craze started. The publishers of Handgun Tests, Pistolero also put out a nice issue along with seeveral independent publishers.

Well guess what! I just happen to have them in front of me right now! Still good reading!

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.