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DomKen -> RE: Executive Orders (1/18/2013 4:23:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
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Assault weapons - no such thing. assault rifles are fully automatic machine guns used by the military and banned from the public for decades.
No they arent.
I'm afraid he is correct Tazzy. An assault rifle is a medium range (not high powered ammunition) light weight rifle capable of semi automatic fire or with the flick of a switch fully automatic fire, they are illegal to own without a transfer, a tax and an extensive background check. Most civilians have been completely priced out of the market. The guns at issue are common semi automatic rifles, carbines and handguns (been around for over 100 years) built on military platforms mainly for durability. Technically there is no such thing as an "Assault Weapon". You can't even define the term. 10 different people will give you 10 different definitions. But let me give it a try. Assault weapons are all semi automatic guns, an entire class of firearms.
The nitwits and liars at the NRA have obfuscated the matter but the assault rifle is very well defined.
It is a class of long arm designed after or during WWII to be smaller and lighter than the battle rifles of the era. the weapon fires a, then, new class of ammunition, lower caliber than the roughly .30 fired by battle rifles but high velocity. Whether the weapon is select fire is immaterial what matters is overall length and weight of the weapon and the ammo it uses.
Moonhead is correct, the AK fires a .30 caliber though less power than most .30's. You are thinking about the .223 which is unique because it is indeed a high velocity round but is also a light weight .23 caliber that doesn't translate to any significant power or range. Pretty much the same with the AK 74 though somewhat better performance.
So it's nitwits that come up with BS like whats in your post, though I can't say liars because they simply don't know what they're talking about.
The AK-47 fires a short .30 (39mm compared to the 51mm used in NATO standard battle rifles.) which is high velocity and short ranged just like the 5.56mm round used in the AR-15. Both cartridges are specific and exclusive to assault rifles. The AK-74 fires a 5.45 X 39mm cartridge, unsurprisingly another purpose made cartridge seen no where else.
So your post shows the profound dishonesty of the gun nuts who have to resort to lies to obfuscate the fact they simply want to possess military long arms for no reason.
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