I know people get tired of hearing it here but in response to an article like this I always feel compelled to point out, once again, an AR-15 is not an “assault rifle.”
according to too many in the LameSM its a machine gun
Everyone knows it is not the classic definition of assault rifle to an enthusiast because it does not have a full auto switch.
But that is an utterly meaningless thing to argue in gun control world. It is like someone who asks if you want a coke meaning “soft drink”. It wont change and it doesn’t matter.
To the gun control person, even if you ever get them to agree to your proper terminology, they still want banning of semi auto variants of assault rifles. And it is an easy position for them to defend. A semi auto AR-15 should scare you more than a full auto in the hands of most people.
The USMC agrees that semi is the best way.
If I had a choice, and was 100 yards away from an average soldier or someone with an AR, I know I would rather endure two seconds of terror than the semi auto emptying of that mag.
I think its a waste of time to try to get them to adopt proper firearms terminology. Same for “bullet vs cartridge”.