what is an assault weapon?

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48. To be quite direct...

...assault weapon has multiple definitions. SecularMotion has provided a wiki-link to the 1994 federally defined, mutant brained, cerebrally decayed and objectively questionable qualification summary. In reality, as ileus has said, an assault weapon is a weapon used in an assault. Since aggressive assaults are crimes, all weapons used therein IMHO are illegal and become illegal concurrent with the crime.

The sarcastic definition provided by trouble.smith is functionally consistent: "It's pretty much whatever they say it is..."

Banning a type of object becomes difficult when the type of object is readily available. When such objects have existed for hundreds of years, the task becomes impossible.

Unless a law incorporates focused action and attention, it will accomplish nothing and be counterproductive.