"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> Lena B Katz wrote:
>>
>>
>> Never said i wouldn't take an honest correction. Googling shows that
>> assault rifles generally means AK-47s.
>>
>> Lena
>
> I gave a working definition of assault rifle a couple of days ago.
> "Assault rifle" is a legitimate military term for a class of machine gun.
> "Assault weapon" is a humpty dumpty* term that means whatever its user
> wants it to mean at the time -- usually meaning something like an AK-47,
> which is a semiautomatic rifle that kind of looks like an assault rifle.
> The AK-47 is ballistically similar to (but a little less powerful than) a
> .30-30 deer rifle.
>
> Best regards,
> Bob
>
> *Humpty Dumpty, in _Through The Looking Glass_, paid his words extra so
> they would mean what he wanted.
>

Good explanation, but I still think Lena need to justify and explain her
cockamamie statement:

"Assault rifles are capable of taking out cars. That's my working
definition."

I can "take out" a car with my .45 revolver or .40 S&W semi-auto, but no
matter what angle I hold them at and no matter how much I squint, neither of
them looks anything like an assault rifle. Matter of fact, I have a really
nice Smith & Hawken pitchfork with which I could easily puncture 4 holes in
a car's radiator. Was this garden tool mislabeled in the catalog? Is it
really an assault rifle?