Assault weapon

[Sonia]

A stupid, ignorant, and uninformed way of saying entirely safe [semi auto] [rifle]. Typically used in liberal/[Californian] vocabulary or slang.

[Donald Trump]

Basically a [scary] looking gun that gun [grabbers] think is too scary for [normal people] to have.

[Jason Yan]

Term coined by Violence Policy Center head Josh Sugarmann to describe cililian semiautomatic firearms with a military or [fearsome] appearance, yet no more [lethality] than lesser weapons. Derived from the term assault rifle, which means a [fully automatic], selective fire rate firearm used my military and police personnel.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

An [amorphous] term coined by those who support gun control. Applied to [semi-automatic] weapons that cosmetically resemble [fully automatic] firearms.