What Right-Wing Media Won't Tell You About Assault Weapons

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5. It might well have been used previously

Feinstein based her '93 legislation on stuff California passed in the late '80s, which I assume had been made an issue in the press in the years prior.

I don't know if "assault weapon" was little used term thrust into the spotlight by the press or the politicians, or if it simply gained ground as a method to differentiate between "tactical" and "sporting" guns.


I do know it is ambiguous and arbitrary; Feinstein's '93 language and her '13 language are different. In 2013, it takes fewer characteristics to be declared an "assault weapon" than before.