Thread: Some advice please on a new .223

Originally Posted by R93

I don't understand what your getting at???
I may be wrong but it seems to me you think a rifle is an assault rifle because soldiers may have used them to assault a position?
It has nothing to do with how they are employed, it is what they're classed as according to military doctrine.

The term wasn't around until the Germans used the STG-44.
An assault rifle by definition must have selective fire, use an intermediate cartridge and use detachable magazines.



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And if you wanted to include anything used by the military for attack, then you would have to include all bolt action repeating arms, all single shots, muzzle loaders, ... bows arrows, sticks, stones.