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Safe. Semi. Burst.Is the M4 you looked at select fire?
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Safe. Semi. Burst.Is the M4 you looked at select fire?
Safe. Semi. Burst.
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"Discover the 2014 Camaro ZL1 high-performance sports car - the highest-performing production Camaro of all time."
http://www.chevrolet.com/camaro-zl1-sports-car.html
Now show me where Colt sells an "assault rifle".
"Colt rifle customers want the genuine article. They know that the story of today’s Colt commercial and sporting rifles began with the Stoner AR-15® design that Colt transformed into a military-grade rifle -- the Colt M16 automatic rifle."
Kinda looks like they changed a Sporting Rifle into a military grade firearm. At least by their own admission. So it might be more accurate to state that the military is using a modified Sporting Rifle.
No, an SKS is a semi-auto only rifle. An assault rifle, by military definition, is select-fire. And an SKS is not select-fire. Therefore it is not an "assault rifle." It is still an effective weapon, but it isn't an assault rifle. A military M60 is also not an assault rifle because it doesn't have the semi-automatic mode and it does not shoot an intermediate cartridge.
Calling a semi-auto only rifle an assault rifle is more like someone took the fiberglass body off of a NASCAR race car and put it on the chassis/engine of a Ford Pinto with a governor built in restricting it to 65 mph. It may look like a race car, but it is not a race car.
You could still race in it on the streets, but that still does not make it NASCAR just because it aesthetically appears to be NASCAR. The exterior body of a NASCAR is not the only defining characteristic of a NASCAR.
+1, and +1.
According to a certain person's logic, a well-intentioned police recruit COULD be turned into a power hungry, charge falsifying, evidence planting monster, therefore, all police officers are power hungry, charge falsifying, evidence planting monsters. Right? I could put sportbike fairings on a bicycle. It doesn't turn a Schwinn into a YZF-R1.
AR made their weapons platform before the US military decided to change their issued rifle. It makes me think of this whole 'drone' issue. I fly RC aircraft, and legislators want to ban certain aspects of my hobby because the military took the same concept, and added weapons to it. My $200 piece of flying foam is now an evil, privacy invading, death machine. :lol:
The NRA only has this custom in basic handling and safety classes.
They do use the term "weapon" in the personal protection classes.
I am certified in Personal Protection in the Home, and the "W" word was verboten in the class.
Think it depends the counselor. In HFS and bp we were told no w word. But my ppih and ppoh instructor classes they were a but more laxed because now your talking about guys using weapons against you or your firearm against them. Obviously NRA doesn't like the word but that seems more propaganda then reality.
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The only thing I quibble with in your post is the use of the word "propaganda." Words carry connotations and there is no doubt in my mind that "weapon" carries a negative connotation, which is why the NRA tells its instructors not to use that word. We are all about normalizing and desensitizing the general population in how they regard firearms, and not calling it a weapon is one small aspect of that process.
The students in the instructor classes I have taken who had the most problem by using the "w" word all had a recent or current military or LEO background, where the "w" word is the word they are taught to use. Those students helped to fill the "W Penalty Jar" and pay for lunch...
A firearm is a weapon. Assault weapon is a word used in everyday conversation as a descriptor of a type of firearm, or weapon. Let the liberals and anti-liberty crowd use the word as they see fit. Those who value liberty pay no attention to such trivial distractions.
Anyone who requires payment (a fine) for its proper use in conversation is a idiot. I would actively work to discredit that business venture.
Is the fine advertised prior to enrollment?<snip>
Don't like the rules? Don't join the organization. Unfortunately, I have known quite a few people who joined an organization for the benefits but who rebelled against that organization's training methods -- methods which had been honed and perfected over many years and which produced many successful graduates. Those who sought to disrupt or 'discredit' the process did not last long in that organization.
Is the fine advertised prior to enrollment?
...The money was actually donated to a local boy scout troop...
The Boy Scouts? An organization that prohibits its adults from carrying firearms while camping in the woods?
Sorry, we are so far off topic anyway, I couldn't help the interjection to note the irony.