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Originally Posted by MH
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My issue is that people who campaign for guns too often try to down play lethality of "civilian" assault rifles.
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Well it might seem that way but remember when you hear such statements that they're almost always responding to someone who is going out of their way to play
up their lethality in order to get them banned.
In fact the very term "assault weapon" was rather obscure until it was brought into the public vernacular by people with an anti-firearms ownership agenda. After all I carried an M16 for seven years in the Army and not once did I ever hear anyone call it an "assault weapon" yet now it's practically a household word.
Bottom line here is aside from cosmetics there is nothing to distinguish a so called (civilian type) assault weapon from any semi-auto rifle. It's just easier to demonize them in the media.