"How Americans Really Feel About Stronger Gun Laws"

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Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Eventually, there will be no choice. The harder they resist the uglier it will be when the time for tolerating the gun lobbies bullshit will run out. They are turning this country into a giant Somalia and it needs to stop.

There is only one reason why this country even has such a horrendous problem in the first place---The 2nd Amendment as we currently interpret it. It may have been somewhat of a necessity 240 years ago, but it is an extreme burden today and it needs to go away.

If you don't like it........Leave.....or use that last bullet on yourself, I don't really care which.

Such a wonderfull mood tonight Dave.

Did you go out the other night and see the supper moon?

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The term assault rifle is generally attributed to Adolf Hitler, who for propaganda purposes used the German word "Sturmgewehr" (which translates to "assault rifle"), as the new name for the MP43, subsequently known as the Sturmgewehr 44 or StG 44. Other sources dispute that Hitler had much to do with coining the new name besides signing the production order. The StG 44 is generally considered the first selective fire military rifle to popularize the assault rifle concept. Today, the term assault rifle is used to define firearms sharing the same basic characteristics as the StG 44

In a strict definition, a firearm must have at least the following characteristics to be considered an assault rifle
It must be an individual weapon
It must be capable of selective fire
It must have an intermediate-power cartridge: more power than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle
Its ammunition must be supplied from a detachable box magazine
And it should have an effective range of at least 300 metres (330 yards)
Rifles that meet most of these criteria, but not all, are technically not assault rifles despite frequently being called such.

For example:
Select-fire M2 Carbines are not assault rifles; their effective range is only 200 meters.
Select-fire rifles such as the FN FAL battle rifle are not assault rifles; they fire full-powered rifle cartridges.
Semi-automatic-only rifles like variants of the Colt AR-15 are not assault rifles; they do not have select-fire capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle