A military term for a fully automatic rifle which is designed to fire 'automatically' as long as the firearm's trigger is pulled. Fully automatic weapons of any kind have been highly regulated in the USA since 1934. The term has been pirated by the anti-gun lobby and mainstream press and misconstrued to mean almost any firearm that they deem frightening and wish to demonize. Today, the vast majority of weapons identified as "assualt rifles" are in reality semi-automatics. Based on technology perfected in the 1890's other than having a 'scary' appearance to the novice or newsperson, semi-automatic rifles, which fire one round per pull of the trigger, are nothing more than glorified standard hunting rifles.

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