Your wrong, if your refering to NYS and the former federal AWB.
By former U.S. law, the legal term assault weapon included certain specific semi-automatic firearm models by name (e.g., Colt AR-15, TEC-9, all non-automatic AK-47s, and Uzis) and other semi-automatic firearms because they possess a minimum set of features from the following list of features:
Semi-automatic rifles able to accept detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Bayonet mount
Flash suppressor, or threaded barrel designed to accommodate one
Grenade launcher (more precisely, a muzzle device which enables the launching or firing of rifle grenades)
Semi-automatic pistols with detachable magazines and two or more of the following:
Magazine that attaches outside the pistol grip
Threaded barrel to attach barrel extender, flash suppressor, handgrip, or suppressor
Barrel shroud that can be used as a hand-hold
Unloaded weight of 50 oz (1.4 kg) or more
A semi-automatic version of an automatic firearm
Semi-automatic shotguns with two or more of the following:
Folding or telescoping stock
Pistol grip
Fixed capacity of more than 5 rounds
Detachable magazine
Now if your speaking of commonly held views, well thats up in the air. There is no official “assault weapon” its just a great term that has been tossed around for so long, that we forget what bullshit it really is.
Just like there is no such thing as a “sniper rifle” because pretty much any rifle can kill, and all high powered rifles can reach out and touch someone. So any target, hunting, or varmint rifle could be used as a “sniper rifle”. A rifle would only be a “sniper rifle” if used in that fashion as a sniper would, or by someone acually performing the job of a sniper.
By the medias definion of a “sniper rifle” the zero power eo-tech sight on a bushmaster ar-15 is a sniper rifle, most of the world would disagree.
Most people don’t know that the US Army uses a Remington 700 as its “sniper rifle”. So do most LE Agencies. That rifle is hands down the most popular hunting rifle ever made. Its bolt action and very accurate. Its been used to kill more people from long distances than the Barrett .50 (which isn’t even a good .50 cal) but still you have no talent ass clowns crying about the Barrett, but say nothing about the Remington.
Lack of education makes these arguements frustrating, because most of the people that think they know so much, in reality only know the bullshit that they have been reading since they were kids, and the Clinton administration was pushing so hard for the AWB.
