Walmart NEVER sold assault rifles in the first place. Assault rifles have a selector switch on them that makes them go fully-automatic. Walmart never sold anything that could do that.

 

For the reference to cars being internal combustion transports there is a reason that that term is not commonly used. The earliest days of the car they were powered by steam, and that led to the electric car, and then to internal combustion. Today we again have electric motors, and the origin of the term car was carriage. The term automobile or vehicle would be more precise because they simply mean conveyance.

And people for the record an "assault weapon" is any weapon used to assault, the AR15 is not an assault anything until one uses it in that manner. The reciever from almost any standard .223 semi-automatic rifle can be refit into resembling an AR-15.

 

Most of the newer models have rails instead of iron sights, so you wouldn't have to change that out for optics. Anything else, like trying to drop in an automatic trigger seer(illegal to even own the parts w/o license, except in vermont), you're going to need some precision tools. The only other major factor is the barrel. Length and twist is important if you want to shoot certain distances. Thickness is important if you plan to do lots of sustained shooting.

 

the point I was trying to make was common usage of the term double action.

 

Common usage is often the wrong usage, people call things by the wrong names and descriptions all the time. The point I was making was that even a semi-auto is no more than one of the 2 definitions of a firearm, single or double action. When attempting to teach someone about anything you must begin at the beginning and not the end. You will never learn the alphabet if you always start with L.

 

in all my learning with firearms I don't recall the term single or double action (until it came to the difference in revolvers) and I seemed to learn just fine. when ever I learned about a semi auto firearm I was simply taught that the discharging cartridge cycled the action.

so like I said perhaps a local terminology. I this case "common usage" is a matter of right or wrong its just not used in conversation when describing a semi auto firearm. When I got my Remington 1100 and my buddy was asking me about it, I didn't describe it as double action semi auto, just that it was semi auto.

I see what you're trying to say though with the double action that pulling the trigger discharges the round and cycles the action.

 

I'm not going to get into which side is right or wrong. I collect pocket watches they are a marvel of beauty, engineering, and history and so are weapons even assault

 

Bad analogy.

A cheap hand gun still has the potential of great harm, perhaps even more harm in the hands of a neophyte. A cheap ring gets you temporary access to pussy, it only lasts until a bigger and better ring gets offered to her.

 

That headline speaks volumes about how little the media (and those who rush to acclaim them) understands about weapons, a semi-automatic weapon is not necessarily an assault rifle. The mechanism to chamber a new round is either manual or gas activated, there are hundreds of perfectly acceptable hunting arms that are semi-automatic, but are not "Assault" rifles.

This is reminiscent of banning all pictures of children because they could be used for pornigraphic purposes.

My apologies if I am repeating what someone else has already posted in this thread, but for the life of me, I could not find one single example of an "Assault" rifle being sold by Walmart.

 

Pretty much the same reason someone would own 30 fishing rods (different type and weight for different situations), or have 50 different garden gnomes or glass unicorns (because they like collecting them), or have 30 different cars (because each is special in its own way), or etc..

With that in mind just for fun lets consider shotguns....You might want a long barrel 10ga. pump for goose, you might want a rifled barrel semi-auto 12ga. for deer. You might like a single shot .410 for Squirrels, an over under 12ga. for trap, a side by side 16ga. for Grouse, or a semi-auto 20ga. for Woodcock.....Etc., etc.. Add to that some are beaters for known harsh situations, some for show, some to collect, some just to have one.....A gazillion reasons. So, they're like anything else.

As to semi-autos, frankly that means little in that more deer have been killed with lever actions, pump actions have their place as do falling block, and push come to shove someone with a bolt action at a greater range will typically generate a higher yield of hits.

One last thing.....Ever heard the old adage of "brought a knife to a gunfight?" Fact of the matter is that most reflexive gunfights happen at 3' or less, and the guy with the knife expects to have to wrestle. Advanced self defense firearm training literally teaches someone how to wrestle their opponent while drawing their own gun, keeping control over the other persons gun hand, and get yours into an angle to fire.

Point being......Don't sweat the weapon in that even a boxcutter will do......Focus on the people and why youth who has always felt that they should go out in a blaze of glory suddenly now feel that is the best option.

Hush....an alias

 

Is `assault rifle' even a real term? Does it refer to size, and the easier wielding of it in combat compared to a longer firearm? Something else?

 

as·sault ri·fle
noun

1. a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use.

 

with auto and semi auto options available, but only the semi is sold to the public, though with a kit, it can be readily converted to fully auto, right?

 

There is a difference between Assault rifle and Assault weapon

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All are rifles, and all are have the word "assault" in their classification. But not all are assault rifles.

 

There are only a few semiautomatics that can be converted to full auto, and those parts to convert them are highly illegal unless permitted.

 

I think there are illegal kits and probably some who know how to do it....

could probably google and find out but you would hit NSA files.....

most folks who can afford 600 to 1200 for that type of weapon would not want to be
caught with full auto because of all they have to lose....

 

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The biggest reason Semi-Automatic Assault rifles should be banned is because there are a lot of gun-smiths and others that know how to make them into fully automatic weapons like the military uses and there is no place in US civilian life that anyone legally needs a fully automatic weapon. Normal semi-automatic guns can't be made in fully automatic weapons. Even the handguns that the military carry are semi-automatic.

 

As for Walmart selling cheap guns, I've seen "Ruger 10-22's" at Walmart, Ruger does not make a cheap gun.

 

I have a Ruger 10-22, and yes, it's on the medium to low range of cheap guns. I have a 30 round banana magazine to go with it.
Now if they still made cheap bullets for it...