The term "assault weapon" is thrown around too loosely and it is striking fear into the minds of the uneducated public. An "assault weapon", by definition, is a select fire weapon that is in-between a sub-machine gun and a heavy machine gun that has a cyclic fire rate of 500-600 rounds per-minute. Nothing purchased by the general public has any of those features. An AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle that requires a squeeze of the trigger for every round fired (AR being short for Armalite); it is no different than any other semi-automatic hunting rifle.
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