Is there any way to fight against the spread of the term "assault weapon"?

[BHP FAN]

I DO disagree...the ''blurring'' between full auto and semi-auto implicit in the anti's use of the term ''Assault Rifle'' is on PURPOSE!

 

[jamesbeat]

Although I hate the term because it is sneaky and dishonest, I do gain a glimmer of satisfaction from it.

See, the antis know full well that the general public wouldn't take them seriously if they really understood what they're trying to ban.

They'd come across as irrational.

They'd come across as irrational because they are irrational.

Any idiot with an internet connection could easily prove to themself that the measures that they pose are ridiculous and will not prevent crime.

But they are right, right?

So, how can they prove that they are right when all of the evidence suggests otherwise?

They resort to dirty underhand tricks. They lie. They invent scary-sounding terms like 'assault weapon' which makes Joe public afraid.
They show footage of automatic weapons to confuse and decieve the public into agreeing with them.

That's what is so abhorrent to us.
Surely if they had a good argument, it would stand on its own?
Why resort to lies to prove their point?

Because their argument is invalid, but they won't admit it to themselves.

So why do they do it at all?

Beats me...

 

[mljdeckard]

Rifle or utility rifle. I stop people every time I hear the term "assault weapon".

 

[General Geoff]

I use sarcasm in the form of calling them evil black rifles.

 

[dsm]

This is old, but still funny...

 

[jamesbeat]

Nice, but they forgot the shoulder thing that goes up.

I always thought it would be fun to invent a pro-gun term like 'anti-rape pistol', or 'family protection shotgun'

I don't think that it would catch on with the leftist media however.

Also, neither term is deceptive, unlike 'assault weapon'....

 

[TRX]

Assault weapons have been subject to registration and tax since 1934, and no new ones have been available to the public since 1986.

 

[Wyndage]

This site was created to help combat the "assault weapon" propaganda. It has gone viral, so hopefully it is having an impact.

I know some people dislike the argument that assault weapons aren't machine guns, because they believe the Second Amendment safeguards a right to both. However, repealing the Hughes Amendment isn't the battle we are fighting right now.

 

[thorazine]

There is always the chewbacca defense. =D

 

[Texan Scott]

I think the antis have the corner on chewbacca. "If my argument doesn't make sense, you MUST ban! Why? It doesn't make sense! What did I just say?"

 

[BullfrogKen]

They are simply semi-automatic rifles to me, and I refer to them as such in my conversations now.

 

[Lateck]

I say assault weapons are outlawed already.
Modern Sport Rifles look like their military brothers just like
NASCAR stock race cares look like the ones you and I can buy. So my Toyota Camery can run the Daytona 500???
It's cosmetic only.

Lateck,

 

[crackleback]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-CLsMRcA0

Here is a good video that the public might benefit from. My only fear is their concern once they find out the potential of a 10 round magazine.

 

[Isaac-1]

The problem is if you address it by any of the alternative terms (modern sporting rifle, etc.) other than the specific model when talking to the general public they will instantly label you as a fringe nut, much like people that insisted on calling french fries, freedom fries. This leaves us with the option to embrace and educate, or come up with our on term that does not sound as stupid as "modern sporting rifle", maybe something like modular expandible carbine, this term though only reall works on AR, leaving the AK partly out there.

 

[BHP FAN]

I call it a ''semi-auto'' short for semi-automatic Rifle which can be anything from a 10/22 on up to the various AR Platforms, and I'm careful to explain to anyone who asks ''can you have that''? [usually about my little .22 ''M4'' Colt/ Umarex] the difference between a semi-auto look alike, and a full on select fire military weapon. Then I'll let them shoot it. Make a lot of converts that way.

 

[BullfrogKen]

Hey, with the legislation they're talking about nearly every semi-automatic rifle will be affected. That's the way these laws end up working.


If the various proposed legislations don't make distinctions among semi-automatic rifles, I'm not going to either.

They are semi-automatic rifles.