Originally Posted by Mr Pheer

In many states it is perfectly legal to own a fully automatic weapon, a short barrel rifle, a silencer, or a short barrel shotgun. There is some paperwork involved and a $200 tax, but perfectly legal.




An assault weapon is not classified as an assault rifle. The term assault rifle confuses the fuck out of everyone is used incorrectly by the media.



Assault Weapon = semi automatic rifle with a detachable magazine, plus two of the features listed above.

The US Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachinegun and rifle cartridges."

I cant remember any of the public shooting in the past 10 years or so where anyone used a fully automatic rifle or machine gun. Actually I cant remember any in my lifetime. But the media uses the term assault rifle incorrectly to promote sensationalism and fear, because most people are too ignorant to know otherwise, and you can see that it works just from reading a lot of the posts in the thread.