DigiRebel
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Actually the difference between an assault rifle and an assault weapon is that assault rifle is actually a defined term, meaning any rifle with selective fire capability. You aren't shooting an assault rifle (in all likelihood anyway) because your weapon can't fire on full auto.
The problem is that the main stream public can't tell the difference between "assault rifle" the thing they want to be banned, but has been since 1934, and assault weapon, a semi-automatic rifle that only fires once per trigger pull.
Its why the spraying bullets thing is so popular...
MSR doesn't do ANYTHING to clarify that situation.
Yeah, the fight is about PR, but naming them "Modern Sporting Rifles" doesn't make them sound less scary to the average schlub on the street (though it is better than assault weapon).
Truly, the real way to convert people to our cause is to take them out, and demystify the rifle and humanize the gun owner. All the time we spent arguing this could have been better spent reclaiming #gunsense (Moms Demand Action uses gunsense a lot. Everyone agrees that gunsense is a good idea, and if you disagree with MDA they argue that you are opposed to "gun sense." Of course, gun sense to them = no guns. Gun sense to me = muzzle control, keeping your finger off the trigger and so on.
Semi-automatic rifles are semi-automatic rifles. They aren't solely for assaulting (honestly they are far better defensively), they aren't solely for sporting.
I like "personal defense weapons" taken straight from the good ole' Department of Homeland Security. Or maybe Family Defense Rifles. (ooh, FDR's even steal the name of a certain political Icon held up as an example by some of those anti-gun crowd...)
The problem is that the main stream public can't tell the difference between "assault rifle" the thing they want to be banned, but has been since 1934, and assault weapon, a semi-automatic rifle that only fires once per trigger pull.
Its why the spraying bullets thing is so popular...
MSR doesn't do ANYTHING to clarify that situation.
Yeah, the fight is about PR, but naming them "Modern Sporting Rifles" doesn't make them sound less scary to the average schlub on the street (though it is better than assault weapon).
Truly, the real way to convert people to our cause is to take them out, and demystify the rifle and humanize the gun owner. All the time we spent arguing this could have been better spent reclaiming #gunsense (Moms Demand Action uses gunsense a lot. Everyone agrees that gunsense is a good idea, and if you disagree with MDA they argue that you are opposed to "gun sense." Of course, gun sense to them = no guns. Gun sense to me = muzzle control, keeping your finger off the trigger and so on.
Semi-automatic rifles are semi-automatic rifles. They aren't solely for assaulting (honestly they are far better defensively), they aren't solely for sporting.
I like "personal defense weapons" taken straight from the good ole' Department of Homeland Security. Or maybe Family Defense Rifles. (ooh, FDR's even steal the name of a certain political Icon held up as an example by some of those anti-gun crowd...)
That'll piss them off
