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In fairness, these are sometimes referred to as “assault rifles” or “semi-automatic weapons.”
Journalist’s Firearms Identification Guide
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In fairness, these are sometimes referred to as “assault rifles†or “semi-automatic weapons.â€
Nice play on theme since if it is an assault rifle it by definition is a select fire weapon and therefore not semi-automatic.
Let’s not forget context either. In the hands of a law abiding citizen it is a machine gun, in the hands of a criminal it is an assault rifle and in the hand of the police it is a patrol rife. When in reality it is a semi-automatic rifle with cosmetic features resembling those seen in movies.
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Greetings:
For me, “assault rifles” means an automatic firing capability. What soldier these days would want to assault something with anything less.
I’m not holding my breath waiting for the next appearance of “semi-automatic weapons” in the media. There’s neither romance nor propaganda value to that moniker.
I live in the San Francisco Bay area. Several years ago, I took a local reporterette to e-mail task for calling an SKS rifle an assault weapon. She laid off the misinformation to what a police officer told her.
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Yep, you forgot to post a pic of a black-powder muzzle loader rifle. In a local paper, that was ID as “an assault rifle” too.
Re-enactors, watch-out! (Maryland has several organized groups of re-enactment militias, Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and the Civil War; most participants have at least one weapon, some actual pieces, others are modern replicas.)
