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Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:37 am
by Chuck
No not the gun but that silly phrase adapted by clueless media and liberals that's applied to almost any gun these days;
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015 ... Newsletter
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 2:41 pm
by joe
Totally agree and other nonsense terms such as assault type & military style
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:08 pm
by Rburro2
I don't own an assult rifle all my black rifles are modern sporting rifles the original definition from colt
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:31 pm
by nickb834
It's just a name; applied incorrectly or not, we shouldn't pander to the morons.
If I'm responsible and safe to be trusted with a firearm I'm safe to be trusted with any firearm regardless of name, method of operation or calibre......
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:18 pm
by DaveT
Complete agreement here....BUT....furious agreement amongst ourselves is of limited use....the real question is how we educate the politicians and antis who can only speak 'ban talk'.
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:23 pm
by WelshShooter
DaveT wrote:Complete agreement here....BUT....furious agreement amongst ourselves is of limited use....the real question is how we educate the politicians and antis who can only speak 'ban talk'.
Educate the politicians? When they make decisions based on emotions and feelings where is the need for "facts?"
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 5:20 pm
by Les
Aye, anything that's black - or brown - or tan - or feckin' pink - is an assault rifle these days. If it goes
BANG, it's an assault rifle. Unfortunately, the anti's have done a good job on this one .... we can only sit back and hope that they don't manage to ban anything that looks as though it might be fun.
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 5:36 pm
by snayperskaya
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Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 6:44 pm
by ukrifleman
The term `Assault Rifle` was coined by Adolf Hitler when he inspected the STGW 44 for the first time.
ukrifleman.
Re: Time to ban "assault rifle"?
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:15 pm
by breacher
Of course we should.
My rifles can be described as ( by both shooters and the clueless )
1 - Straight-pull rifles.
2 - Sporting rifles.
3 - Full-bore rifles.
4 - Rimfire rifles.
5 - Assault rifles.
6 - Replica assault rifles.
7 - Resembling military rifles.
Now, you may say, "who cares what they call them" or whatever but...............
If there was a referendum in the morning - would you prefer it was "Shall we ban sporting rifles" or "Shall we ban assault rifles / military looking rifles / etc"
The result would be surely very different depending on what descriptive term was used ( or in COMMON usage in the media )