and held down<\/strong>, the firearm will shoot continuously until the trigger is released or until the gun runs out of ammunition. A fully automatic firearm is often referred to as a \u201cmachine gun\u201d. Machine guns can be described as assault rifles. <\/p>\nThird: Machine Guns are NOT Readily Available to the Public<\/h5>\n
Once again, just because the news guy said it was a machine gun, it doesn\u2019t mean he is right. Despite what most people have been led to believe, you can\u2019t walk into any gun store and buy a machine gun. Don\u2019t believe me? Try it. In order for a civilian to legally own a machine gun (aka \u2013 a REAL assault rifle), they have to obtain expensive permits and other documentation as well as pass federal, state and local screening processes. The vast majority of gun owners and NRA members do NOT own machine guns. The narrative spewed by the mainstream media and the liberal left saying otherwise is completely FALSE. <\/p>\n
So Why All the Confusion?<\/h5>\n
Well, there are a lot of theories on that one \u2013 some of which include massive conspiracies and such. However, most of it is simply misunderstanding the real terms and definitions. Another part of it is the media hype. It\u2019s far more intriguing and shocking to talk about a murderer with an assault rifle than it is a killer with a simple \u201chunting rifle\u201d. The third part is a deliberate goal to confuse, misinform and frighten people. <\/p>\n
We could go on about those last two for a long time, so I\u2019ll focus on the simple misunderstanding part. The firearm below is a U.S. Military M4: <\/p>\n
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This is what is referred to as an assault rifle. Variants of this rifle can fire in semiautomatic mode, three-round burst mode or fully automatic mode. In full auto mode, the M4A1 can fire at a rate of 700-900+ rounds per minute. This is a machine gun. This is NOT<\/strong> what was used in the mass murders in Columbine, Sandy Hook, San Bernadino or Orlando or any other of the mass murders people refer to when talking about AR-15 rifles or \u201cassault rifles\u201d. This rifle can NOT be purchased at corner gun shops. <\/p>\nContrastly, the firearm below is a Mossberg MMR: <\/p>\n
![\"Mossber](\"http:\/\/www.thefirearms.guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mossberg-MMR.jpg\")
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This is NOT an assault rifle. While it looks like the M4, it isn\u2019t. Many, many of the parts and functionality of the MMR are just like the M4 but one key piece is missing: the MMR is semiautomatic and is only available in semiautomatic. Once again, this means one trigger pull = one bullet fired. The firing rate of a gun like this is around 60-90 rounds per minute. Yes that is a lot of rounds and yes that can mean a lot of carnage, but it is NOT an automatic or a machine gun or an assault rifle. It is considered a \u201cModern Sporting Rifle\u201d. Most people who own guns like these use them for target shooting, home defense and shooting competitions. These types of firearms were NOT intended for combat or warfare and the vast majority of people who legally own them do NOT want to kill anyone with them. <\/p>\n
The MMR, like many of the privately and legally owned rifles like it, are designed based on what is known as the \u201cAR-15 Platform\u201d. The AR-15 platform is simply a design platform based on an original design by Eugene Stoner in the 1950\u2019s. Any and all firearms built on the AR-15 platform are commonly referred to as an AR-15 but they have many names depending on the manufacturer. Some of these names are M&P15, SR15, M15 and MMR. They are all AR-15\u2019s in the sense that Ram 1500\u2019s, Ford F-150\u2019s and Chevy 1500\u2019s are all half-ton pickup trucks. There\u2019s a lot that make them similar and a lot that separate them. In they end they are trucks, just like AR-15\u2019s are rifles. Comparison ends there<\/strong>. <\/p>\nI really hope people take the time to read this and thus will better understand what is and what is NOT an assault rifle. The most important thing I want everyone to take away from this article is that by and large, what much of the media and politicians define as assault rifles are in fact not. If you\u2019ve learned that much today, that\u2019s a good start to better understanding firearms and hopefully better understanding the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Misinformation. It\u2019s everywhere. It is even more pervasive \u2013 and dangerous \u2013 when people who don\u2019t understand what they are talking about try to teach other people what it is they don\u2019t know themselves. Case in point: the assault rifle. Everytime there is a tragic murder involving firearms reporters, politicians and even celebrities feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendreger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/p>\n![\"ar-15\"](\"http:\/\/www.thefirearms.guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/dales-ar-15-1200-300x219.jpg\")
<\/a>Now, that\u2019s a smart question. An assault rifle is a rifle that: <\/p>\n