Texas continues to make news.

Free speech isn't abusing anything... except dictators. Like the right to bear arms. the right to a speedy trial and all the rest. Only dictators view these things as abuses.

 

You take a long time to research the validity of your arguments, but you use a misnomer for an Armalite rifle. Would you like me to educate you as to what an assault rifle is?

 

I'd like know what an "assault rifle" is. Some folks seem to think that an AR-15 is one because its made for combat. Odd... not a single military in the world ever has... or does... use it.

 

An assault rifle is a selectable firearm that allows the infantryman to switch from semi-automatic (one round per trigger-pull) to automatic (a machine gun), and the military version of the AR15 is called an M16. It also can have a bayonet mount or a suppressor (informally and improperly called a silencer). I hope this helps.

 

An AR-15 is not capable of full auto fire. It is semi-auto (one round fired for each trigger pull) only.
A FLASH SUPPRESSOR has nothing to do with a SILENCER.
Its called a "bayonet stud".

 

Thanks. You read the first version of my response which I had edited.

 

It’s a fluid definition. It’s not what it was in 1994. At some point it will include lever action .22 LR rifles.

 

If you think 22 LR guns will ever be "assault rifles" (whatever the heck that means) you probably view spitballs as hand grenades... which left wing wackos just might embrace.

 

That is a little disingenuous. The AR15 is basically a copy of the M16A2 with the only difference being the M16A2 is fully automatic with a selection switch to semi-automatic while the AR 15 is intended for semi-automatic. Although they are different, the AR 15 got its start with the M16A2 in 1959 and has been modified ever since. In similarity, the European airline manufacturing company called Airbus, which was formed by several European Defense and aerospace companies for primarily commercial purposes only.

The only definition for an assault weapon is the definition used by the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Act. In that act, it defines an assault weapon as any semiautomatic weapon with a detachable magazine and must contain at least two of the following: folding or telescopic sight, pistol grip, bayonet mount, flash hider or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one, and/or Grenade launcher. There are specific definitions for "assault weapons" specifically for pistols and shotguns per the act. Ronald Reagan, the Great Conservative, Ford, and Carter all wrote to the House to pass the bill in 1994.

Note: I am providing the definition as was used in the act that is no longer in effect. And this is not what is said in 18 USC 921.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

 

If they have a pistol grip and a bayonet mount for instance, then of course it will be considered an "assault weapon." The definition is not necessarily hinged on the type of ammo a firearm uses but its intent.

 

Actually it is. There are packs that can be purchased in which the newer versions can be made fully automatic. Oh hell, even the M1 could be made fully automatic by filing down the firing pin, and US soldiers in the field during WW2 did that on a regular basis, especially if going up against Germans with their M42 submachine guns.

 

If their political or journalistic masters tell them a spitball is a hand grenade, then a spitball is a hand grenade. And if you say it isn’t, you will be accused of engaging in an argument of semantics.