Assault Weapons - What defines one...?

[sw442642]

Any gun that antis don't like is called an assault weapon or a sniper rifle or a Saturday Night Special.

The techy debate can go on but for political purposes a gun person arguing about what Hitler said has no real utility. For our debates, it is a civilian, semi-auto version of a military used long arm.

If you try to argue the Hitler stuff, ordinary folk thing you are nuts. They go on the simple black gun bad appearance rule.

We need to convince people it is OK to have such guns and not try to dance around the fact that they are only semi auto versions of military weapons and thus wimpy. We want them as they are NOT wimpy.

 

[Dad-Gummit]

But wasn't my muzzleloader the "assault" weapon of the 1800's?

 

[Travis McGee]

MODIMARKO:

Yep that's me with the MAC. But I didn't know Kevin Dockery.

 

[alan]

diesle:

The technically correct definition, of "assault weapon" or "assault rifle" is as follows, though our "law givers", who likely wouldn't know the difference have written their own, is as follows. Pardon me for "shouting". SELECTIVE FIRE WEAPON, USUALLY OF RIFLE CONFIGURATION, CHAMBERED FOR AN INTERMEDIATE POWER CARTRIDGE. In the proverbial nutshell, that is the beginning, the middle and the ending of it.

For example, the first and only "assault rifle" ever used by the military forces of this country was M-2 Carbine. It was "of rifle configuration", and it was chambered for that "intermediate power cartridge". Most important, it "had selective fire capability".

The foregoing should, I hope, answer your question.

 

[Diesle]

Thank you all very much.

I think I got what I was looking for. Both through your info here and some subsequent research based on your comments....

Thanks alot!

Diesle

 

[Tamara]

T. Stahl,

Actually Hitler didn't like the idea of a Sturmgewehr at all.

Yeah, he kept asking "Can zis rifle carry bombs?"

 

[T.Stahl]

Indeed. After watching the performance of the Me262 for the first time, he even forbade to talk about the new plane in any connection other than as a fast or blitz-bomber. :banghead: