Are attributes of different "assault weapons" merely cosmetic?

[1-Old-Man]

6. That is sort of a confused definition.

Just because a weapon may shoot full automatic doesn't make it an assault weapon and then of course dam near no one owns a gun that shoots full automatic. To own one legally you have to sign away your first born to the ATF and there are simply not very many of them out there at all. Of course many actual military arms shoot full automatic, but the look-alikes that clowns on the streets, the same people who like to dress up like a bush (wear camouflage) like to tout as their assault weapons are really nothing but dressed up replicas of the real thing that for the most part aren't much good for anything. Its like young kids putting quasi race car parts on street cars thinking it makes them somehow better - idiots that do not understand that you can not drive a real race car on the street. The same thing applies to guns. You take a hunting rifle and make it look like a military firearm, but of course with out the firepower of full automatic capability that the real military firearm has, and what you end up with is a gun that is no longer very good for hunting and absolutely no good as military weapon. Fat tires on a Fiat.