A fork of Rural Dictionary
Any firearm that doesn't have some sort of wood texture.
Nerf guns don't have wood so they're assault weapons!
*A gun that primarily kills cops and small orphans.
*it has many evil features, such as: a pistol grip and barrel shroud that give it super accurate spray-fire from the hip.
*it has high bullet capacity clip that can spray-fire continually for over 30 seconds.
*its bullets can go through multiple layers of body armor, and does over 12 times the damage of hunting rifles.
*it can be easily concealed in clothing (do to its folding stock).
*it has a flash hider that makes the user invisible.
*and are available to anyone.
1 in 5 police are killed with Assault weapons.
A stupid, ignorant, and uninformed way of saying entirely safe semi auto rifle. Typically used in liberal/Californian vocabulary or slang.
"Hey did you here that that disgusting hetero freak used an assault weapon to defend his life and property! What a disgusting pig! "
Basically a scary looking gun that gun grabbers think is too scary for normal people to have.
Wimpy gun grabber: We're not familiar with guns, but these ones LOOK ominous
Anything you can hurt someone with. I can take my shirt off, wrap it around your neck, and choke you with it, that makes it an assault weapon. I could throw a teddy bear at your head really hard, that makes it an assault weapon. I could intentionally give you a paper cut, that makes the paper I used an assault weapon.
Frequently misused to describe semi-automatic weapons.
That's an assault weapon! You shouldn't be allowed to own that!
What, this? An AR-15 only fires one bullet at a time dude.
Term coined by Violence Policy Center head Josh Sugarmann to describe cililian semiautomatic firearms with a military or fearsome appearance, yet no more lethality than lesser weapons. Derived from the term "assault rifle", which means a fully automatic, selective fire rate firearm used my military and police personnel.
"Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons."
An amorphous term coined by those who support gun control. Applied to semi-automatic weapons that cosmetically resemble fully automatic firearms.
When gun manufacturers began making these so-called assault weapons without the things that made them look menacing, the gun grabbers cried that a "loophole" was found. Well, duh...they would be the last to see that the changes were cosmetic in nature.