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Assault Weapon Truth
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The Facts Buried Beneath the Rhetoric about "Assault Weapons"
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What is an "assault weapon"?
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It is debated whether the term “assault weapon,” which entered the American lexicon in the late 1980s, originated as a political ploy by gun control advocates or as a marketing ploy by gun retailers. What is certain is that “assault weapon” is not a technical term, a term of art used by firearm manufactures, or a military term. The closest match in any of those categories is the term “assault rifle,” which is a military term referring to a medium-caliber, shoulder-fired rifle that allows the shooter to select between semiautomatic mode (the gun fires one bullet per pull of the trigger) and either fully automatic (the gun continues to fire bullet after bullet as long as the trigger is depressed) or three-shot-burst mode (the gun fires three bullets per pull of the trigger). Because "assault weapons," as defined by state and federal law, are semiautomatic only and can fire in neither fully automatic mode nor three-shot-burst mode, they are not assault rifles. (THIS article explains the current United States laws restricting civilian ownership of fully automatic/burst-fire firearms—aka machine guns—and explains why those weapons are not part of the ongoing debate over gun control in America.)
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Unfortunately, despite both "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" being clearly defined in the Associated Press Stylebook, the media often conflates these two similar-sounding phrases—using "assault rifle" when they mean "assault weapon"—thereby further confusing the public on the relationship between so-called "assault weapons" and true weapons of war. None of the assault rifles found on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam are available for sale in American sporting goods stores.
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Read More and watch amplifying videos: Assault Weapon Truth: The Facts about Assault Weapons
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My Thoughts:
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This should be useful to educate all of those anti assault weapon people out there.
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The Facts Buried Beneath the Rhetoric about "Assault Weapons"
.
What is an "assault weapon"?
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It is debated whether the term “assault weapon,” which entered the American lexicon in the late 1980s, originated as a political ploy by gun control advocates or as a marketing ploy by gun retailers. What is certain is that “assault weapon” is not a technical term, a term of art used by firearm manufactures, or a military term. The closest match in any of those categories is the term “assault rifle,” which is a military term referring to a medium-caliber, shoulder-fired rifle that allows the shooter to select between semiautomatic mode (the gun fires one bullet per pull of the trigger) and either fully automatic (the gun continues to fire bullet after bullet as long as the trigger is depressed) or three-shot-burst mode (the gun fires three bullets per pull of the trigger). Because "assault weapons," as defined by state and federal law, are semiautomatic only and can fire in neither fully automatic mode nor three-shot-burst mode, they are not assault rifles. (THIS article explains the current United States laws restricting civilian ownership of fully automatic/burst-fire firearms—aka machine guns—and explains why those weapons are not part of the ongoing debate over gun control in America.)
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Unfortunately, despite both "assault weapon" and "assault rifle" being clearly defined in the Associated Press Stylebook, the media often conflates these two similar-sounding phrases—using "assault rifle" when they mean "assault weapon"—thereby further confusing the public on the relationship between so-called "assault weapons" and true weapons of war. None of the assault rifles found on the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam are available for sale in American sporting goods stores.
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Read More and watch amplifying videos: Assault Weapon Truth: The Facts about Assault Weapons
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My Thoughts:
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This should be useful to educate all of those anti assault weapon people out there.
