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Article: Who needs an assault rifle? Does John?(CAMPFIRE TALES)
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Long before Clinton's Assault Rifle Ban, politicians, elected and appointed officials, and the media had made the switch. Whether through ignorance or just plain lying on their part, so-called assault rifles became the whipping boy of the antigun crowd. Along the way the term "semi-" also was lost and they simply became automatic rifles.
Fifteen years ago I did not own an assault rifle, and from here on we will use this term in the same way the all-knowing "mainstream" media does even though it is incorrect. My only semiauto rifle was a Ruger 10/22 customized by Jimmy Clark with a heavy match-grade barrel and match trigger. I had also given my daughter and ...