What, exactly, is an “assault rifle”? You can Google it if you want. And that is the second term we will take a look at: the assault rifle. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of ‘assault rifles’.”īut wait, isn’t an “assault weapon” the same thing as an “assault rifle”? Actually, no they are not. “Prior to 1989, the term “assault weapon” did not exist in the lexicon of firearms.
Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review: What is an “assault weapon” exactly? According to Bruce H. Let’s look at the first term in question: “assault weapon”. What? That’s not true! The kid in Sandy Hook used an assault weapon! Didn’t he? Well, to answer that we have to look at the facts and, unfortunately, some misleading verbiage that has been included in the most recent gun debate. Here’s the problem with the “assault weapons ban”: in reality they are already illegal for civilians to own in the United States. The problem is, by calling for such bans, the president clearly does not know (a) the definition of assault weapons or, (b) existing laws that prohibit assault weapons. Obama additionally called for an “assault weapons ban” and a ban on “high capacity magazines”. In reality, the majority of these orders will do nothing to curb gun violence in America simply because they do not target the root issues of gun violence.
On Wednesday, January 16, President Obama released a list of 23 Executive Orders geared at curbing gun violence.
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