Comments on: Big words http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/19/big_words/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:52:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: karrde http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/19/big_words/comment-page-1/#comment-192459 karrde Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:49:00 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/19/big_words/#comment-192459 Hence the need for a good glossary/definition of terms. (For example, "Assault Rifle" is understood by many specialists to be Full-Auto and/or Select Fire. By common usage in the media, "Assault Rifle" is now anything semi-auto which is based on a military design. The descriptions of Kalashnikov-style rifles are especially troubled by this. Most civilian-legal AK-style rifles are semi-auto only, unless the owner has a Class III permit and has one registered before '86. Yet it is far too easy to confuse the civilian-legal AK with the full-auto AK.) Hence the need for a good glossary/definition of terms.

(For example, “Assault Rifle” is understood by many specialists to be Full-Auto and/or Select Fire. By common usage in the media, “Assault Rifle” is now anything semi-auto which is based on a military design. The descriptions of Kalashnikov-style rifles are especially troubled by this. Most civilian-legal AK-style rifles are semi-auto only, unless the owner has a Class III permit and has one registered before ’86. Yet it is far too easy to confuse the civilian-legal AK with the full-auto AK.)

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