UPDATE: Virginia has advanced what the media is happy to call an "assault weapons" ban; but the definition of "assault weapon" embraces most firearms in common use.
Sasquatch
In Virginia, armed protesters are demonstrating against the new radical Democratic Party authority's attempts to constrain their rights. This is important, and something we must not lose sight of in the larger context. Armed protests are an American right, as arms are. Our heritage is Lexington & Concord, which were exactly about an attempt by a government to disarm the people.
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It is interesting to me that you can often get a large group of armed individuals together in one place like this and those gatherings, with maybe one or two exceptions, do not have bad interactions with law enforcement or anybody else. On the other hand, large groups of ostensibly unarmed individuals gather together, and you can pretty much count on violent encounters with both law enforcement and anybody else within reach. And it is also not terribly hard to predict what will happen just based on observing the object of the demonstration.
Fair. I never have problems with cops, in spite of my suspicion of cop-like behavior. Usually I like them if I get to know them and vice-versa.
I am always intrigued how “assault weapon” changed from “looks like a modern military firearm” (AR, AK, and so on), to “black plastic firearm,” to “modern long gun.” I’m waiting for muzzle-loaders to become “assault weapons.”
LittleRed1
LittleRed1, it's not limited to long arms. In some instances I've heard people talk about any weapon that is self-loading and has a magazine, which would also encompass semi-automatic pistols and presumably revolvers if you define 'magazine' broadly, as the definition of an 'assault weapon'.
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