On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doug Kanter wrote:

>
> "zxcvbob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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?

no. when I said "take out" a car, I did not mean just sending a bullet
straight through the car. I meant "disable the car for future use."

Lena