"You critique society. Yet you are still participating in society. Curious! I am very intelligent." - You, for some reason

No they don't?

No like, seriously. I have pressed that button four times now. Doesn't work. That's fine - I've made it very clear I don't want to talk to you anymore, and I can report your comments all night. Keep harrassing.

Thought I blocked you. Go away! I have no interest in talking to a brick wall! Fuck all the way off!

Byebye, brick wall!

> So we don't know who came up with the definition. I just told you? > And there's nobody who officially determines what is or isn't an assault rifle. This is extremely circular logic and in bad faith. > And it's highly likely that nobody who wants to ban the AR-15 would change their mind after learning that it's not an assault rifle. No but it's fairly important to know what you're talking about, in general

I think I know of an easy way to get banned from there..

That's actually a great question. I don't know. I do know that it has been the definition for a *long* time, though. The Sturmgewehr was the first true assault rifle used in warfare, so I'm assuming the term was coined sometime in the 40s. About as far as my knowledge goes.

It's not really a matter of "who" determines what qualifies as an assault rifle. There is no Assault Rifle Committee that says "yep that one is" or "nope that one isn't." But "assault rifle" is a term with an actual definition. > An assault rifle is a select fire rifle that uses an intermediate-rifle cartridge and a detachable magazine. Select fire indicates burst or automatic capability. AR15s, and every other "over the counter" sporting rifle sold in the United States do not have select fire. They are semi-automatic. Ergo, not assault rifles. And "assault *weapon*" is a completely made-up term that has no solid definition and is mostly used by various states to restrict the people's right to keep and bear arms.

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And 67-75% of "gun deaths" are suicides and the vast majority of murders occur in major cities by gangs.

> An AR-15 is absolutely an assault rifle. It's a rifle with relatively low-power cartridges, high-capacity magazines, a pistol grip, multiple accessory rails, and a polymer frame, designed to have options for burst and full-auto fire (though obviously those are disabled on civilian models). Not a single one of those is a qualifier for being an assault rifle save for the select fire capability. And as you said, civilian models have that disabled... making them not assault rifles.

"If you don't want to do the thing we've been doing since 1934 that hasn't worked while the problem has only gotten worse while these guns have existed for 80 years and have only become harder to get, you're IMMORAL!!!"