If you can't define, how can you regulate it?
They should just be honest...
"An assault weapon is any weapon that scares me."
I've distrusted your lines of BS since you started posting on this site.
So given your supposed vast knowledge of firearms, I would think it would be easy to clearly describe what is an "assault weapon" or "military style" firearm without relying on other ambiguous descriptions crafted in other political narratives and jurisdictions.
Thanks for posting this. It reveals the utter depravity of mental process in our White House. It defies logic to blame gun violence on mental illness when the incidence of mental illness is quite similar to ours throughout the other nations we regularly compare ourselves to. Yet these other nations experience only a tiny fraction of the gun violence that we do. And they are all nations where private citizens may own guns!
or the 1st amendment allows people to attach labels to products without concerns for your feelings?
You can add labels to whatever you want for whatever reason you want. But that doesn't mean it is scientific fact OR that others have to accept it. You can call the planet Mars "Here4moneyVille" if you want. Don't be surprise if the rest of the world thinks you're a fucking loon.
You can't just create a new category of firearms based on no science and no clear rules or delineation and expect people who know the science to actually agree or accept that you aren't pushing a narrative designed to be general so you can confiscate all firearms and sabotage the 2nd amendment.
there is no "science" involved in branding a gun, especially when using vague terms as 'assault weapons' and 'military style'.
%%Unreal, they know not of what they speak but they just keep talking.
The term "assault weapon", at least to a veteran, implies a lightweight carbine rifle that fires a relatively small caliber with relatively large ammo capacity. Carbine means short. Yeah even an AK-47 round is regarded as a relatively small round at 7.62 x 39mm. These weapons generally have a high rate-of-fire.
Weapons falling into this category used to be employed by the military for close work, urban stuff etc but came to be more highly regarded for the light weight of the weapon and the light weight of the ammunition and so weapons like the M-16 came into much wider use.
And that is it.
That is the total actual definition of an assault weapon to anyone who knows. A folding stock does not make something an assault weapon. Mag capacity does not make something an assault weapon. A flash suppressor does not make something an assault weapon.
I don't like them and I've got an expert marksmanship decoration with the M-16. Got no use for them.
Instead I like what is called a Main Battle Weapon. You can buy the civilian variant of the M-14 (the Springfield M1A) which has never been called an assault weapon and has never been banned and just avoid the whole thing. It shoots through cinderblock and has incredible range. Its considered just a long rifle. Problem solved.
The headline says it all...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...devastated-Bahamas-wake-Hurricane-Dorian.html