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5. There's tremendous confusion between assault 'rifle' and assault 'weapon'

Assault weapons were defined in the US by the federal assault weapons ban--the semiautomatic AR-15 meets those criteria because it is a semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine, a pistol grip and a shrouded barrel. Other criteria used in the legal description may include a folding or collapsible stock, a foward positioned grip and a barrel end threaded to be able to recieve a silencer. That definition is one of US law.

Assault rifles is a category used in describing military weapons. Assault rifles are considered to be selective-automatic fire capable, shoulder fired rifles that are more powerful than sub-machine guns (that fire pistol-like rounds), have detachable magazines (rather than belt-feed), and a range of 300 yards. The description of assault rifles is -not- a legal description but rather a description used by military scientists or military analysts for a class of infantry weapons intermediate between submachine guns and machine guns.