white male with Assault Rifle-15 (AR15) kills 4

Pay attention, Buck:



"Except no assault weapons that were not already banned were banned. In the Vietnam/Post Vietnam era, if a rifle doesn’t have a bayonet stud, detachable box magazine and SELECT Fire-Semi/Auto/Burst, then it ain’t an assault weapon. It’s a sporting rifle.

Not one country in the world that I know of has EVER used an AR15 as its Infantry Weapon.

If you want to understand how an assault weapon is truly defined, read “On Infantry” by John English and/or “Infantry Attacks” by Irwin Rommel. Both books have a section on the battlefield environment “the last 300 yards to the objective.” There they posit requirements for Infantry weapons...lightweight, bayonet, high rate of fire.

Taking those requirements back in time, we can see that in:

1776, The assault Rifle of the day, was the Brown Bess Musket

In War1, the US Assault Rifle was the bolt action Springfield ‘03

In War2, the M1 Garand...which incidentally actually used a clip, not a box magazine.

Vietnam: M16

Today: M4

At no time did the US Military use an AR15.

The point is, defining assault rifles has two components: features and era in use. "
 
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