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Originally Posted by osirus82
I agree that the police should have access, training and assault rifles available for the police officers on patrol.
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Keep in mind that nobody is talking about assault rifles here. By definition, an "assault rifle" is capable of full-auto or burst fire. But these are just AR-15s being talked about here, which are semi-auto only.
Sorry to harp on incorrect terminology, but incorrect terminology adds to the ignorance that fuels mass support for the "assault weapons" ban and such. The article linked here even refers to AR-15s as "machine guns". A huge amount of people in this country believe that an "assault weapons" ban will ban machine guns and that the AR-15 is full-auto. Even Bloomberg and Obama have been quoted within the last year as saying the AR-15 is a full-auto weapon. The last thing we need to be doing is adding to that ignorance by calling AR-15s "assault rifles" ourselves.