AWB
Alternate names for the Assault Weapons Ban. Heh. I’ve been calling it either the ban on weapons that look like assault weapons or the ban on politically incorrect self-loading firearms for a while. I think the latter was a term created by Dave Kopel.
Via TC.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 am
I’ve always called it the “scarry lookin weapons” ban
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
My linguistic contributions to this topic have been:
1. so-called “assault weapons”; and
2. cosmetically incorrect
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Since it’s a restriction on things based on the way they look and where they come from, I call it racial profiling.