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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Cro, can you provide a definition on assault rifle please?
I have practiced many assaults with a semi automatic.
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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
People are conflating two terms. An assault rifle is select fire, an assault weapon in the US is defined in legislation to include semi-auto firearms based on appearance
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Basically what this guy said. A select fire between semi and fully auto makes it a true assault rifle. A pure semi-auto doesn't constitute an assault rifle, but it's mostly just semantics.
I've come across many a gun nut in the US who immediately will dismiss you if you equate an AR to an assault rifle, so I try to keep my arguments tight when debating them, and encourage others to do so as well.
And just so we are clear, I'm of the opinion that regular folks do not need AR-15s and these should be banned. Only people who go through the same training and licensing similar to Canada should be able to own one.