They are irrelevant, you dumb ****.Huey » 14 Jun 2022, 7:13 am » wrote: ↑ Yes. For the terms of the discussion, yes. Two things to help you. NFAs and the ATF recognize the M16, M4, etc that are in service with the military as machineguns. I have posted that definition for you but you probably use strike thru. The civilian models are not machine guns.
Second, here is the list of rifles/carbines/submachine guns/machine guns in service with the military. None have the name assault rifle. None have the name AR 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... d_roles)_5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... s#Carbines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... chine_guns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_i ... _service_5