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To: combjelly who wrote (59066)	3/22/2018 7:38:58 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 363409

The claim was that the term "assault rifle" to describe the AR-15 class of weapons was a recent product of the gun control crowd. Assault rifle is not a new term and few would claim it was. I certainly did not. "Assault weapon" is a different term, and its use, or at least its common use, to describe semi-auto weapons is pretty new. Whatever the history of the term much of the opposition focusing on weapons like the AR-15 is because "scary black rifles" either directly (the people pushing control don't understand the weapons, find them scary, and in many cases don't even know the difference between semi-auto and full auto) or because they understand others will have such a fear and/or lack of understanding and so the weapons become a convenient target to extend gun control further.