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by definition, an assault rifle is capable of select-fire.Oh shit. Lol
AR-15s aren’t assault rifles’
One of the most common tactics used by gun culturists is to try to belittle their opponents’ knowledge of firearms.
By their lights, anyone who calls an AR-15 or one of its many variants an “assault rifle” is uninformed and not worth listening to.
They’ll tell you the only “real” assault rifles are “selective fire,” which gives the user the choice of shooting multiple bullets with one trigger pull, while the AR-15 fires only one bullet per pull.
And they almost always point out that AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle, but for Armalite rifle, after the company that originated it.
The AR does stand for Armalite, but that’s about as true as this myth gets. The gun was developed under a Pentagon bid specification — I’ve read it — specifically seeking a “semi-automatic assault rifle” for troops.
Armalite sold the design to Colt, which cranked out two versions — the military M-16 in selective fire and the civilian AR-15 in semi-automatic.
AR-15s and their copycats — along with cheaper Chinese knockoffs of the Soviet AK-47 — were called assault rifles in gun catalogs, gun magazines and by owners until well into the 2000s.
But the term got a bad reputation after assault rifles became the weapon of choice for random mass shootings, because they’re the most capable and formidable weapons a civilian can buy.
In 2009, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade association, coined a new and softer term — “modern sporting rifle” — and demanded everybody use it.
Gun magazines and lots of mainstream news sources, including the Associated Press which I ordinarily respect, have changed their style to refer to assault rifles by more warm-and-fuzzy euphemisms.
I won’t.
"hydrostatic shock" was a theory used to persuade Army brass that the 5.56mm round was capable of performing in the same role as the traditional 7-8mm rounds used during WW2. (come at me @BeardOfKnowledge)
nobody cares you ammosexual"hydrostatic shock" was a theory used to persuade Army brass that the 5.56mm round was capable of performing in the same role as the traditional 7-8mm rounds used during WW2. (come at me @BeardOfKnowledge)
But the real value of the select-fire platforms was in their ability to lay suppressive fire for squad assault tactics. "Assault Rifle" is literally the translation of the first weapon to be designed around using a mid-caliber, select-fire, large magazine infantry weapon (Sturmgewehr 44, 'assault rifle' 1944).
so while marketing is marketing, assault rifles are assault rifles when they're capable of select-fire.
Shall I go on?
Not all select-fire rifles are assault rifles."hydrostatic shock" was a theory used to persuade Army brass that the 5.56mm round was capable of performing in the same role as the traditional 7-8mm rounds used during WW2. (come at me @BeardOfKnowledge)
But the real value of the select-fire platforms was in their ability to lay suppressive fire for squad assault tactics. "Assault Rifle" is literally the translation of the first weapon to be designed around using a mid-caliber, select-fire, large magazine infantry weapon (Sturmgewehr 44, 'assault rifle' 1944).
so while marketing is marketing, assault rifles are assault rifles when they're capable of select-fire.
Shall I go on?
Have it your way.nobody cares you ammosexual
never said that.Not all select-fire rifles are assault rifles.
The military definition of assault rifle is pretty detailed. By their definition the AR-15 is not an assault rifle.
But it is an assault weapon by definition.
Your post was about assault rifles though.Not all select-fire rifles are assault rifles.
The military definition of assault rifle is pretty detailed. By their definition the AR-15 is not an assault rifle.
But it is an assault weapon by definition.
My post also said that an AR15 was not an assault rifle by definition.Your post was about assault rifles though.
But you then went on to explain why you seem to think it is valid to refer to semi-automatic rifles as assault rifles. Your post seems to be about proving the statement that an AR-15 is not an assault rifle to be historically inaccurate.My post also said that an AR15 was not an assault rifle by definition.
Another thread about shooting in Tulsa.Another shooting in Tulsa
My post was from an article but I agree with it.But you then went on to explain why you seem to think it is valid to refer to semi-automatic rifles as assault rifles. Your post seems to be about proving the statement that an AR-15 is not an assault rifle to be historically inaccurate.
stop making threads about the housing collapse and inflation. You're fucking with the narrative.5 people dead at Tulsa medical building, in the 233rd mass shooting of 2022
"Four innocents and one shooter" are dead, says Jonathan Brooks of the Tulsa police department at a news conference on Wednesday.www.npr.org
@Filthy was so mad that I schooled him for 74 pages he tried to get me got!
Isn’t any gun, used outside of a controlled environment (is a gun range), an “assault” weapon?My favorite part is how annoying language is in adapting. Because people regularly call ARs "assault rifles" eventually the term will be accepted as an appropriate alternative.
At that point I expect a number of previously responsible gun owners to go a mass shootings with dual wielding pistols.
This is the kind of thinking we keep you around for Rob. Put in an assault weapons gun ban, then rather than passing new laws, just scope creep the definition to encompass all guns.Isn’t any gun, used outside of a controlled environment (is a gun range), an “assault” weapon?