Quote Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
OK... lets make it simple... assault weapons are those that either have a fully automatic mode, or can be modified to be fully automatic and were designed strictly for military and/or law enforcement use.

Any more questions??? or are you just trying to stir up sh*t??
No just trying to educate and maybe get folks to think, the term assault weapons is a much misused and misunderstood term.

Any weapon that has a fully automatic mode has been illegal since the 1934 national firearms act, when a tax act was passed. You can still own one, but you have to go through a thorough check and pay the ATF their tax.

This was in large part in response to the violent organized crime wave spawned by prohibition, Alcohol prohibition. Just as gun control now IMHO is a misguided effort to curb crime spawned by our current prohibition and the violent organized crime it has produced.

Most semi auto rifles can be converted to full auto easily, and most have never been in military use. They are just as lethal as any semi auto rifle that looks like it was made for military use.

Which is why congress passed a feel good law and called it an assault weapon ban to pacify the public, after they found out the only thing that differs on a military rifle are superficial things like a bayonet, a pistol grip, and a flash suppressor.

So they banned those "scary looking" parts because their is no functional difference between those rifles and say a the ruger 10-22 or mini 14 that dads buy for their kids at Walmart. The gun dealers just removed those parts and went about their business.

Even today most folks have no idea that any automatic weapon has been very highly regulated since 1934, and have no idea that the "assault weapons ban" didn't ban a single weapon at all.