Amid calls to ban 'assault weapons' after the mass school shooting in Nashville, it's important to describe what exactly that might cover.
, especially attacks that involve rifles, some voices often call for bans on"assault rifles" or"assault weapons," while others push back. But what exactly would that include?
For advocates of such bans,"assault rifles" and"assault weapons'' are terms used broadly to describe automatic and semiautomatic rifles, especially those with added features such as detachable magazines, pistol grips and collapsible or folding stocks.
For gun rights advocates, that argument unjustly demonizes semiautomatic guns routinely used for hunting and target shooting. They would likely apply the terms"assault rifles" and"assault weapons" only to fully automatic guns used by military and law enforcement.
during World War I and World War II. Germany pioneered the invention of fully automatic rifles during the first half of the 20th century, and referred to one of them as the “Sturmgewehr,” which translates to “storm rifle.” Since then, “assault rifle” has been commonly used to describe fully automatic rifles, which can also be known as machine guns.
The emergence of the term “assault weapon” is first seen in gun advertisements from the 1980’s, but its current popularity seems to have been born out of the gun control movement.
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