What is an assault weapon?

>>30276183
Whatever scares the liberals at the time

something that leftists dont want you to have so you cant resist their tyranny

>>30276183
A politicized term denoting any number of semiautomatic firearms, often rifles, that posses any number of "unsporting" cosmetic features.

To liberals a buzzword to actual fun owning americans it's something we have to spend so much work and money on to acquire legally they're a fucking joke.

extendo clip and thing that goes up

http://www.assaultweapon.info

Anything used specifically to assault something, like a breaching charge.

Frankly, 50 kills with a breach charge, I'm impressed, what were they all crammed into a fucking fridge or something?

>>30276183
Whatever is convenient to use to pass legislation at the time

>>30276251
>"the AWB defined assault weapons as semi-automatic firearms that shared too many cosmetic features with their fully automatic counterparts."
>Banning something because it looks illegal
Land of the free everyone

>>30276251
Why were assault RIFLES banned in 1986?

>>30276183
All firearms, sooner or later. Once they get the AR-15s, semi-auto pistols will be assault weapons. Then all semi-auto rifles. Then all center fire rifles. Then double action revolvers. Then all "concealable" weapons, and finally anything "convertible" to concealed weapons (read, all remaining weapons)

>>30276183
Any weapon with a shoulder thing that goes up.

>>30276323
The full auto function was scary

>>30276327
Then we'll get bigger boards! With bigger nails!