It just gives anti gun people fear and motivation
when all of these people want to ban them why do you keep calling your guns assault rifles.
The military uses fully automatic rifles because they know semi automatic is not a very good assualt rifle.
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I’ve got the guy in my basement with battery cables hooked to his nipples and standing in a pool of hungry piranhas…I wish.
Liberals are the most common miss users of the word in history next to 5th grade boys.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Liberals…..
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
when people develop things for certain purposes, the things usually get named for the reason why it was created or what it was created for.
would you insist of changing the term assault rifle to say something a little less anti gun, such as a "stick of bubble gun"??
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
The Army, it’s a combat weapon.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I believe it originally came from Germany, late in WW2. They introduced a rifle known variously as the MP-41, MP-43, and StG-44. The last term is "sturmgewehr," which is literally translated as "assault rifle." Damn Nazis, and now their ideological descendants want to eliminate those things.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
As has been noted, the term is from the German.
Our somewhat disconnected and perhaps loony lib anti gunners have attached the term to many guns without even bothering to determine if there is any relationship.
As I am sure you are aware, the term only is accurate when applied to selective fire guns that work with cartridges in the 7.62×39 power class. The original Sturmgewehr fired the 8×33 cartridge.
Of course for those that want to ban guns, they will start by demonizing a class, ban that class and go from there. The large mag bans by the Clinton bunch were an example of that form of stupidity.
The Assault Rifle of the Democrats has little to do with the real thing, aside from being chambered for the same weak cartridges. It’s sort of like having a pit bull made out of marshmallow, it looks like something but they are all fluff.
Ask yourself this question, if you were going to get in a shooting match, which cartridge would you pick? Your choice is something that shoots a 139 grain bullet at about 2000 FPS or something that shoots a 150 grain bullet at 3200 FPS.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
An assault rifle is a fully automatic. The anti gun folks would like everybody to think that a semi-auto made to look like a fully automatic is an assault rifle which is very untrue. Obama says these semi-autos were made for a foriegn battlefield which couldn’t be further from the truth. These guns they want to ban have never been on a battlefield. If the government keeps pushing the issue, however, they will soon be on a new battlefield.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
The term has been around since WW2 since the Germans created the first selective fire weapon the STG44. More recently it has been used by liberal fucktard freedom hating scumbags to group together any and every gun that is semi-auto and looks like it’s military counterpart.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
actually, one of the most evil people ever did, adolf hitler, when the Sturmgewehr 44 was shown to him, he named it this, which means assault or attack weapon 44 and the name stuck to all weapons that fit into this category, weapons that are the size and range of a rifle, but have the ability to switch from semi auto to full auto fire, some semi auto weapons are still considered assault weapons like the HK G3 and the SKS, but this is wrong.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Actually any Rifle could be considered an Assault Rifle when used to Assault another person or persons.* That means that any Sporting Rifle used for Hunting Game, or any Rifle for that matter could qualify as an Assault Rifle.* In reality there is no such thing as a Separate or Distinct Rifle that qualifies as an Assault Rifle, they all could for that Reason.* It is False and Inaccurate to Describe only a Specific Rifle as an Assault Rifle.* That could mean that all Rifles could be considered Assault Rifles and Banned by the Government in America.* Is that Scary or What?*…
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
The people who invented assault rifles came up with the term assault rifles and I don’t have any problem with it at all. A couple of people have already explained that and there’s no need for me to repeat it.
The problem I have is with "assault weapon", which is a marketing term that came into use about twenty years ago and really has NO consistent meaning. It gets applied to any gun that someone wants other people to think is too scary to be in civilian hands.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
RDG 78 said it rite.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
The word assault rifle is a translation of the German word Sturmgewehr, which literally means Storm Gun. Storm in this meaning was assault, as in Storm the Castle.
Adolf Hitler came up with this term during WW2 when he re-named the Maschinenpistole 44 to Sturmgewehr 44, which was the worlds first assault rifle.
The Sturmgewehr 44 was also the used in he designing of the SKS, AK 47, AKM, AMD 64, AK 74, and most other East Bloc Assault weapons.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Q. What jerk came up with the term assault rifle?
A. Adolf Hitler when he christened the MP44 (which is generally considered the first assault rifle) the Sturmgewehr (or literally storm rifle/assault rifle).
Q. The military uses fully automatic rifles because they know semi automatic is not a very good assault rifle.
A. Actually the military uses assault rifles which fire 3 round burst/full automatic because they want a high rate of fire with something that is controllable (though even there that’s debatable since all fully automatic weapons suffer from muzzle climb). The burst/full auto capacity is there so soldiers can lay down a high volume of fire in the advent of an ambush or if they need suppressing fire, however if you want accurate shooting you almost have to switch to semi-automatic.