Reply #27: "Assault weapons" is Brady-speak for the most popular centerfire target rifles

[benEzra]

and defensive carbines in the United States. "Assault weapons" dominate centerfire rifle target shooting in this country. Taking H.R.1022 as the operative definition, more people own them than hunt.

"Assault weapons" aren't "on the street." They are in the gun safes and gun cabinets of tens of millions of law-abiding American citizens, including my wife and I.

Hunting rifles with traditional straight wooden stocks aren't "on the street" either. Criminals very rarely use rifles (less than 3% of U.S. murders involve any type of rifle).

FWIW, this is an "assault weapon" according to H.R.1022 and the Brady Campaign:


Ruger mini-14 Ranch Rifle, small-caliber (.223) farm/utility carbine