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yeah, very true. The term is misleading.
Many people who don't know much about weapons think it refers to "machine guns" or full auto rifles. That wasn't remotely what the so-called AWB was about.
My "assault rifle" is a military rifle but without the selector switch... it is strictly semi-auto. I have no particular interest in full-auto, other than as playtime-lets-waste-ammo at the range.
In the late 1980's Josh Sugarmann of the obscure Violence POlicy Center (a place he went to after being fired for being too honest [extreme] by Sarah brady) realized that the campaign against saturday night specials was being lost
so he wanted another weapon to demonize. after perhaps watching RAMBO one too many times, this turd Sugarmann, sent out a paper to left leaning media types telling them to demonize semi auto "assault weapons" by deliberately confusing them with machine guns that sometimes look similar.
after that paper went out, the VPC was "blessed" by Patrick Purdy's murder spree in Stockton Kalifornia using a Type 56 Chinese made semi auto rifle
after the VPC paper went out the use of the term SEMI AUTO in the MSM went from a couple mentions for all of the 7 years before the paper to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES. we even had crap like "the suspect was armed with a semi automatic revolver" or a semi automatic pump shotgun