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This is another bull myth that assault rifle is not assault rifle because it is not a machine gun therefore it is less lethal than assault rifle.
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By that token my ought-three Springfield bolt-action rifle is an assault rifle, since that was what it was designed for all those years ago. For that matter so is my friend's 1865 muzzle-loader. Whether it's "bull" or not is your opinion, so please don't state it as a fact you know and everyone else denies.
By definition an Assault Rifle is capable of fully automatic fire. Your calling it "bull" doesn't make it so.
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Put it simply in the perspective....US citizen has right to own military high power assault rifle.
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Arguably that is correct. The American revolutionary war started when the local Colonial governor sent troops to confiscate a citizen-owned armory full of cannons. During the war of 1812 the government hired privately owned warships to prey on British shipping. The government looked to citizens who were as well armed as any army or navy.
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You can view it as constitutional freedom or whatever but don't say that it is something else......just innocent semi auto gun for home defence. or whatever.
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Who exactly is saying that? Fully automatic weapons are indeed illegal. Semi-autos are not. Some people want to ban them as "assault rifles", mainly because they look like their fully automatic counterparts.
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It is a gun for gun nuts mostly...unless you live in relay really nasty place.
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I could just as easily call your argument "bull", since it seems that you hate guns in general and are looking for an excuse to push that opinion. Since you won't get much attention by going that far, you limit yourself to jumping on one case you think people will listen to. Your argument then becomes no more valid than the one you are challenging.