• @enki@lemm.ee
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    -38 months ago

    The AR in AR-15 may stand for Armalite, but an AR-15 is still an assault rifle.

    The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges.

    And

    …examples of intermediate cartridges are the 7.92×33mm Kurz, the 7.62×39mm and 5.56×45mm NATO.