Not technically true, as the first experimental weapons (like stocked Lugers with snail drums) were "assault" weapons, specifically designed for literally assaulting defensive positions with firepower (after a starting spoonful of infiltration) that simply didn't exist (even remotely) before they started tinkering.
Then when you hit the intermediate cartridge changeover with 8mm Kurtz, you have the "storm" (or assault) gun, which had the similar literal meaning alongside some additional National Socialist flair for the dramatic amidst their increasingly dire strategic situation (exempting, if we will, all the rounds like 30-30, .30 carbine, 6.5mm, and everything else that almost counts as intermediate before the straight-line forerunners of today's intermediate cartridges).
I mean, fuck the media for sure, and I'm 100% being a pedantic asshole, but from a historical firearms perspective there IS an extant "assault weapon" concept. It just isn't something that can be discussed in good faith with lefty jerkoffs.
A made up term by politicians who wouldn't know a Colt M4 from a caulking gun.
But they do know what a Cock gun is ====> ==> ====> O (Shiff's asshole)
I mean, I clear rooms with my caulk gun before sealing sinks and such. Can’t help it lol
Not technically true, as the first experimental weapons (like stocked Lugers with snail drums) were "assault" weapons, specifically designed for literally assaulting defensive positions with firepower (after a starting spoonful of infiltration) that simply didn't exist (even remotely) before they started tinkering.
Then when you hit the intermediate cartridge changeover with 8mm Kurtz, you have the "storm" (or assault) gun, which had the similar literal meaning alongside some additional National Socialist flair for the dramatic amidst their increasingly dire strategic situation (exempting, if we will, all the rounds like 30-30, .30 carbine, 6.5mm, and everything else that almost counts as intermediate before the straight-line forerunners of today's intermediate cartridges).
I mean, fuck the media for sure, and I'm 100% being a pedantic asshole, but from a historical firearms perspective there IS an extant "assault weapon" concept. It just isn't something that can be discussed in good faith with lefty jerkoffs.