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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10767)9/18/2004 10:43:33 PM
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The answer is no. An assault weapon is a term that did not even exist in the dictionary before the Assault Weapons Ban. Legislators made it up hoping that people would automatically assume they were machine guns to aid with the passage of the ban. The confusion occurs due to the real dictionary term assault rifle. Assault rifle is a real term and describes a select fire machine gun that fires a cartridge larger than a pistol cartridge but small than a high powered rifle cartridge. Select fire means that with the push of a button, it switches between machine gun mode and single shot mode.
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