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Quoted: Damn. Even the dumbass gun grabbers did not call it a Semi-automatic Assault Rifle!
You are correct.
The dumbass gun grabbers called them "Semiautomatic Machine Guns".
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Where did that happen? Show me.
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Sorry, Larry, I failed to save all those old newspapers and tape all those old "news" shows just in case you doubted my memory.
You'll just have to take my word for it.
Larry, you are correct, an "Assault Rifle" is a full auto... but the antis played on that term, modifying it to "Assault Weapon" so they could also cover pistols and shotguns.
Another term often used was "legal machineguns".
There was a huge organized campaign to confuse the average person, discussing "assault weapons" (semiautos) , mixing the terms, showing full autos being fired, but talking about semiautos. It was a deliberate tactic to make the average person think semiautomatic = machine gun.
With this, the media succeeded.
The fact remains, "Assault Weapon" is an artificial, made up name.
When someone says "now that assault weapons are legal again" correct them, there is no such thing as an "assault weapon".