Greetings!
Geesus. Well, HappyDaze, you already seem to believe that I'm some kind of uber alt-right idiot. I have read the definition of Assault Weapon on Wikipedia, where it talks about the whole confusion of terms, and how they have been generally conflated. However, the distinction is purely a *political* definition, which has been manufactured by politicians and anti-gun activists, as I have said.
In a general sense, a technical and historical definition--which is what I intended--all assault rifles, submachine guns, machine pistols, and automatic shot guns are *Assault Weapons* with an automatic rifle obviously being an Assault Rifle. Notice the commonality. They are all weapons solely or capable of full automatic fire. That is what an Assault Weapon is. That is the definition I have always understood by fellow members of the military, by military veterans, by gun owners and firearms historians and other firearms experts.
The fucking politicians and anti-gun activists have come along and manufactured the term *Assault Weapons* and given them and the term an entirely different definition--that being a term referring to semi-automatic weapons that use high capacity magazines, have pistol grips, and otherwise look like evil military weapons.
As I alluded to previously, precisely fuck no, a semi-automatic rifle is not, and cannot be an ASSAULT WEAPON. I don't give a fuck what the politicians or their stupid tyrannical laws say or define it as. They are wrong.
So, yeah. Assault Rifles are Assault Weapons, though not all Assault Weapons are Assault Rifles. Some Assault Weapons are for example, submachine guns, machine pistols, and automatic shotguns. Such weapons are or may also be considered assault weapons, but they are not assault rifles because they are not intrinsically rifles.
And yeah, fuck anyone who believes that an Assault Weapon is a semi-automatic rifle. I know the fucking state of California believes that, just like all the cock-sucking anti-gun politicians and activists.
Fuck them, and fuck their goddamned phony, made-up definitions to words. Just like SJW's and other Marxist scum, they twist and shae entirely new definitions of words so they can make new laws and policies to fuck the American citizen and bring in tyranny and absolute state control.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK