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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Since your talking about assault rifles, which i'm sure everyone can agree is an Firearm found in the military, then we should probably use the military definition of an Assault rifle. The military definition of an assault rifle is:
1. Fire's an intermediate cartridge
2. Uses a detachable box magazine.
3. Is selective fire. Which, in case your unaware, means it can fire fully automatic. Like a machine gun.
The AR-15 does indeed fire an intermediate cartridge, and have a box magazine, however it cannot fire fully automatic. So by definition of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is NOT an assault rifle.
By the way, in case you didn't catch it, the AR in AR-15 does not mean "Assault Rifle", it means, "Armalite Rifle". That's just how the Armalite corporation named their designs. Did you know that there is an AR-7?
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When Colt bough the rights to the AR-15 from Armalite they also copyrighted the name AR-15.Later when Eugene Stoner left Armalite (Armalite was owned by Fairchild an aircraft manufacturer) he gave his designs the prefix S for Stoner(SR-25 Stoner 63).
Also to those who look around and claim that suddenly pro gun people are saying that AR-15 does not mean Assault Rifle the exact meaning of AR has been a topic of debate for some time.People not knowing what they are talking about will claim that it means "assault rifle" (including misinformed gun users) The true meaning is Armalite Rifle during Vietnam with the early troubles the M-16 had some troops said that AR meant ARmalite rifle (a reference to the original company) or "Always Reliable"(a pun alluding to its unreliability).