Rob Boudrie
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Why is a gun not called a murder weapon until it has been used in a kill, but a rifle never used in an assault is called an assault rifle?I agree.
I could be wrong about this but I thought I remember there being some obscure historical context for the term assault weapon, that actually existed before the political left came up with the term to mean any kind of firearm that they want to ban. Maybe stemming from some specific use case in world war 1 or 2? It didn’t apply to military arms in general. But my memory is bad and maybe that’s not a thing.
Either way, it doesn’t matter. An AR15 is not an assault weapon. I just call it a rifle. More accurately, a carbine. But I call it a rifle.