remember people, if it doesnt fire more than one shot per trigger pull its not an assault weapon and assault weapon is a nazi propaganda term used to make their new fancy guns at the time sound scary and isnt even an official term for anything nowadays, its just slang.
Assault weapon is a made up term.
Assault Rifle was originally the German Sturmgewehr, or Storm Rifle. The US Army actually does have an official definition of Assault Rifle: A weapon smaller than a full rifle firing an intermediate (between pistol and rifle) cartridge with select fire ability.
now now lets not get out of control. maybe this guy is right and we need gun control to make the police comfortable. Maybe we are just paranoid about needing guns to stop a tyrannical government. China has some of the most strict gun control and right now a government that wants to oppress the hell out of there people but I'm sure peaceful protests will make all the politician over there stop immediately and treat their citizens with dignity and respect. that will prove us Americans are just being foolish about not giving up our guns. And if peaceful protest doesn't work then we will hit them hard with prayers and wishes that should do the trick.
The only group that gets to use this line is the community that is statistically more likely to have negative encounters based on race.
In my experience, however, the people spouting it have no such claim. Instead they are desperately searching for any tenuous link that lets them think they are underdogs and heroes instead of self-centered and self-regarding paranoid cranks.
Assault Rifle was originally the German Sturmgewehr, or Storm Rifle. The US Army actually does have an official definition of Assault Rifle: A weapon smaller than a full rifle firing an intermediate (between pistol and rifle) cartridge with select fire ability.
In my experience, however, the people spouting it have no such claim. Instead they are desperately searching for any tenuous link that lets them think they are underdogs and heroes instead of self-centered and self-regarding paranoid cranks.