Friday, February 01, 2013

1,100 Green Berets set record straight






1,100 Green Berets set record straight on guns
'AR-15 is not an assault rifle. It is a single shot semi-automatic'

Res Ipsa Loquitor

“The terms ‘assault weapon’ and ‘assault rifle’ are often confused,” they say. “According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review, ‘Prior to 1989, the term ‘assault weapon’ did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of assaults rifles.’”

The Green Berets, who use the weapons, point out the M4A1 carbine is a U.S. military service rifle – it is an assault rifle.” [Full]


Accurately and succinctly put.  However, they've heard all this before and are either just too stuck on the stupidity emanating from their Progressive cloister or,  like Chucky Schumer [Schumer’s False Fire] is captured by the brilliance of his own false analogies..

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The gentlemen are wrong. The term was invented in WWII by the Germans when they first issued the new Sturm Gewehr (Assault Rifle) to their troops.

Anonymous said...

Read the post, the term they refer to as made up is "assault weapon."
-Steve_in_CA

Anonymous said...

The term of interest is "Belagerung Waffe", or "Siege Waffle" which is insufficiently pejorative and -ahem- assaults the USDA carbohydrate pyramid. Hence the ham-handed substitution of a salt rifle.

--Jimmy don\'t play that

Chuck Martel said...

In 1983 I first heard the term "assault rifle" to apply to full-auto capable .223s and "battle rifles" to apply to full-auto .308s.

Anonymous said...

Rog, question, if you are firing your M-16 over a sand bag berm in defense of your outpost. Is it still an "assault weapon". In 5 years in Uncle Sams Misguided Children I never heard that term. -Anymouse

Rodger the Real King of France said...

It's a gun for fun

BlogDog said...

Siege Waffle? Sounds delicious.

Mike C said...

Ahem...

"This is my weapon, this is my gun.."

You know how the rest goes...

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