2aguy
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What part of assault rifle do you not understand. The intent of the manufacturer was to sell it to the military.
I understand it...you don't....."Assault Rifle," to start with is a made up term...made up by anti-gunners for the scare factor....which has obviously worked on your tiny brain.....
It doesn't matter what the intent was since it was first sold to civilians....lots of technology created for civilians is then taken up and adapted by the military.......the civilian market responds to the market.....the military has to deal with government bureaucrats so what they develop is usually crap....
Again....
“Colt sent a pilot model rifle (serial no. GX4968) to the BATF for civilian sale approval on Oct. 23, 1963.
It was approved on Dec. 10, 1963, and sales of the ‘Model R6000 Colt AR-15 SP1 Sporter Rifle’ began on Jan 2, 1964,” one critic of the article contended. “The M16 wasn’t issued to infantry units until 1965 (