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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (108645)	4/13/2009 4:56:15 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 542781

<<<An assault weapon is designed to fire a small projectile at a high rate of speed, as all guns are designed to do, down to a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.>>> I guess you have to have a sick imagination to think that someday soon assault weapons can be designed to fire small projectiles that could cause a lot of damage.

To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (108645)	4/13/2009 6:40:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542781

I think prior to the beginning of the movement to get "assault weapons" banned, the term, while undefined and imprecise, would mostly refer to full auto-weapons, perhaps assault rifles, perhaps (with the removal of "rifle" from the term) to any full auto weapons, but it wasn't something that would have normally been used to refer to semi-auto weapons. Perhaps the use of "assault weapon" to refer to semi-auto weapons was a deliberate tactic to confuse the issue, to make people think that the laws covering this topic where concerned with banning (fully) automatic weapons when they are not.