Yes, "assault rifle" has an actual, long-standing definition.
'The American gun industry traditionally used the terms "assault rifle" and "assault weapon" to market to consumers who wanted to be military LARPers. When gun regulators then started to use the same term, the NRA reversed course and pretended it didn't know what that term means, hadn't heard of it.' (+8 images of images of gun periodicals)
Notice how the journals that used the term "assault weapon" had no universal agreement as to what that meant -- some of them showed sub-machine guns.
@trz4747@mstdn.social @ech
Yes, "assault rifle" has an actual, long-standing definition.
'The American gun industry traditionally used the terms "assault rifle" and "assault weapon" to market to consumers who wanted to be military LARPers. When gun regulators then started to use the same term, the NRA reversed course and pretended it didn't know what that term means, hadn't heard of it.' (+8 images of images of gun periodicals)
Notice how the journals that used the term "assault weapon" had no universal agreement as to what that meant -- some of them showed sub-machine guns.
@strawd @JonKramer