<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Technical definitions aside, “assault rifle” seems to mean any normal rifle, which is black, with a plastic stock, versus a “normal rifle” with brassing and a wooden stock. <br><br>More specifically, these features seem to be “okay”:<div><br></div><div>- lever action</div><div>- .22</div><div>- BB gun</div><div>- Pellet gun</div><div>- Iron sight</div><div>- magazine 9 or less</div><div>- wooden stock</div><div>- brassing</div><div>- antiques</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.cabelas.com/product/home/rimfire-rifles-and-pistols/lever-action-rimfire-rifles/pc/105625080/c/1611677880/sc/105532380/henry-golden-boy-lever-action-and-hmr-rimfire-rifles/1381524.uts?slotId=0">https://www.cabelas.com/product/home/rimfire-rifles-and-pistols/lever-action-rimfire-rifles/pc/105625080/c/1611677880/sc/105532380/henry-golden-boy-lever-action-and-hmr-rimfire-rifles/1381524.uts?slotId=0</a></div><div><br></div><div>These features are “questionable”: </div><div><br></div><div>- .308</div><div>- bolt action</div><div>- magazine 10-20</div><div><br></div><div>These features seem to be “assault”:</div><div><br></div><div>- black</div><div>- plastic stick</div><div>- camo pattern</div><div>- scope</div><div>- magazine higher than 20</div><div>- fully automatic</div><div>- calibers abover .308</div><div>- side feeding</div><div>- hollow point</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.usa-gun-shop.com/6-best-50-bmg-rifles-for-sale-in-2019/">https://www.usa-gun-shop.com/6-best-50-bmg-rifles-for-sale-in-2019/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please note that in the term “assault rifle” assault means “tactical”, or “reminiscent of military equipment”, rather than referring to to the crime “assault/battery”. <div><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 27, 2020, at 12:34 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Technically, in the law, you can be assaulted just by being looked at, though probably that hasn't been in the courts for many years. Battery is when you get hit. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">assault - defined</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> as intentionally putting another person in reasonable apprehension of an imminent harmful or offensive contact. Physical injury is not required. bill w</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 12:27 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-2303534181587577916WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Russians bots at work again?<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">Or it's a rifle that fires rubber bullets that puts people's eyes out. bill w<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Red Rider BB guns do that, since BBs have eye-seeking technology but rubber bullets seldom have such technology.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps it is a rifle which can be swung like a baseball bat, to swat some reprehensible villain or victim, which would meet my understanding of the term “assault” but not a fixed-emplacement anti-aircraft weapon such as an M-60 or a T-44, which are too big and bulky to be used in that bizarre manner.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">When you hear the answer to this, a lotta stuff will start to make sense.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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