Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Can it be an assault rifle if it ain't military caliber

I keep hearing issue being made of AP bullets and military use and designed for war...ifa Black Rifle shoots a caliber designed for hunting, is it an assault rifle?

my 6x45 has never assaulted anyone

Be hard to find a commercial caliber that has not seen at least some military applications.

Same as the Weapons of War BS...

There have been all firearms actions known to man used in the act of war.

To the OP: I’d argue that it would.

Unfortunately, an "assault rifle" is anything the left labels as such. They could care less about ballistics. Seems to be mostly based on appearances; but isn't that stereotyping?

My 6.5 Grendel has never been in an assault, but it has engaged in multiple "ham"- bushes.

"Assault" is a verb...not an adjective. I wish people would start using it in the correct context. It provides the left a made up stereotype of any semi-auto that they deem a threat. Eventually, that will be all of them, no matter what they look like or what caliber they may be.
Andy3

My 300 blackout has never been used in war...

I'm not aware of any military use of the .450BUSHMASTER either of which my AR shoots.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,,,

Assault Rifle:

there you go complicating the issue again

It just depends on how scary it looks to pusssies. If it’s African American in color and goes “pew...pew” every time you pull the trigger without having to manipulate any doohickey’s then it’s probably an assault rifle and too dangerous to have around. Assault rifles can go on rampages and causes otherwise normal people to go on killing sprees.

It is also a noun. It's as close as they can come to calling it an "attack" gun, which is their preferred term used to label any spoken word or action of their adversaries.

At the time the 2nd was written, a rifled muzzle loader was an "assault. rifle". (smoothbores possibly pass the leftist test? )

So, we gotta go back to killing f'krs with smoothbores and bow and arrow?

Hey, how about making us all much safer- only Roman Legion era stuff?

Personally, assault knives of all sort scare the crap out of me.... now rocks - them I can deal with.....

My. 221 fireball lives quite well in an AR.

Assault Fireball? Sounds menacing.

In the 1939 case "United States v. Miller" the Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd amendment did not guarantee an individual the right to keep and bear a sawed-off double barrel shotgun "because the possession of a sawed-off double barrel shotgun does not have a reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia".

In my opinion, the United States v. Miller case is legal precedents that weapons useful for military purposes are in fact protected by the 2nd amendment as I don't believe the Heller case (2008) changes that, but only extended the right to individuals apart from service in a militia and the McDonald case (2010) made it applicable to all jurisdictions of the U.S.

The Heller case left room for some regulation, so I don't doubt the left will continue to try to ban so-called assault weapons. I say so-called, because many of the features that defined an assault weapon in the Clinton administration were cosmetic rather than functional.

There are no Federal assault rifle laws at the moment, so we'll have to go by the definition used by a state that does have assault rifle laws. Here's a link to a flow chart showing what's an "assault rifle" in California:

http://www.sparrowdynamics.com/v/vspfiles/downloadables/AW-quick-reference-guide-8-10-17.pdf

Note that the definition is all about features of the rifle and that there is no reference in to what cartridge the rifle uses. So the answer to the question "Can it be an assault rifle if it ain't military caliber?" is Yes.