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Xavier_Onassis » 23 Jun 2022, 4:31 pm » wrote: ↑

23 Jun 2022, 4:31 pm

The word assault is indeed an adjective and is frequently used as such. The Army uses the term Assault weapon.
Besides, grammatical usage is NOT the point.
What needs to be done is there needs to be a law preventing the sale of rifles such as the Uvalde shooter used to splatter those poor little fourth graders so badly that some could only be identified by her shoes.

The Truth About So-Called “Assault Weapons”Gun control advocates bring up “assault weapons” time and time again. It seems almost impossible to a have discussion about Second Amendment rights without hearing the term. And yet, what many Americans who aren’t familiar with guns don’t know is — it’s not even a real term.

How the Term “Assault Weapon” Came to Be

Gun control advocates adopted the term “assault weapon” from the military in an effort to deliberately confuse the public and advance the political cause of gun control. They now use it to mischaracterize a broad range of firearms used by law-abiding civilians.


The origin of “assault weapon” stems from the term “assault rifle,” which the U.S. Army defines explicitly as a selective-fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power. The term “assault rifle” only applies to automatic firearms rather than the semi-automatic firearms that gun control advocates are focused on banning today.


The key difference is that semi-automatic firearms, such as AR-15s, only fire a single round each time the trigger is pulled. Automatic firearms — including military assault rifles — discharge continually when the trigger is pulled. Although they are often used in the Armed Services, these firearms are not readily available for sale to the general public. To purchase a fully-automatic firearm requires an extensive FBI background check including fingerprints and photographs, as well as registration of the firearm at the federal level.


However, gun control advocates refer to semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms interchangeably — in a deliberate effort to confuse voters and advance their broad agenda.

https://www.nraila.org/the-truth-about- ... ng%20today.