On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, zxcvbob wrote:
> Lena B Katz wrote:
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>> Never said i wouldn't take an honest correction. Googling shows that
>> assault rifles generally means AK-47s.
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>> 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.
Thanks!
Lena
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