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*Huey » Yesterday, 2:22 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 2:22 pm

The term "Assault Weapon",
coined in the 1980's in an effort
to ban semiautomatic rifles, has
arguably become one of the most
successful antigun public relations
tools in modern history. The term
"assault weapon" is now broadly
used by antigun activists to describe
any and all semiautomatic firearms
as taboo and undesirable for private
civilian ownership, despite being
legally owned and used by millions
of Americans. Antigun politicians
and misinformed media have
p e r p e t u a t e d this e r r o n e o u s moniker
for decades to drive public opinion
of semiautomatic firearms into t h e
gutter. As a result, m a n y think that
a semiautomatic firearm is a so-
called "assault weapon" based on
its c o s m e t i c f e a t u r e s or a s s u m e that
the firearm is in fact a fully automatic
m a c h i n e gun.

https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/ho ... -SD017.pdf