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Originally Posted by Matt L
An assault rifle IS a machine gun. Only in popular culture has the name "assault rifle" been subverted to mean how it looks and not how it functions.
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This is hair splitting.
All assault rifles, machine guns, submachine guns are all capable by design of operating in fully automatic mode.
The difference in name comes from two sources: foreign manufacturers translations, followed by individual government definitions OVER the years.
For those who are unaware:
Heavy machine gun (tripod)
Machine gun/machine rifle/ Maschinengewehr/ Ruchnoi pulemyot/
Light machine gun/ automatic rifle (as in BAR)
Assault rifle/Fusil automatique leger/LAR-light auto rifle
subachine guns/
Machine pistol/full auto pistol/Schnellfeuer
and these categories are not hard and fast. For example, the Communist East german Army called the AK47 (Rus: Avtomat Kalashnikova) the MPK or MaschinenPistoleKalaschnikow
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But all Swiss M-57 rifles fire a .30 caliber cartridge in single shot or automatic mode, so it is an automatic rifle used for armed/military assault .
There are NO assault rifles that fire ONLY one round per trigger pull. All are also full auto mode-equipped.
Hopefully this gets us from the use of loaded words and recirects the conversation.
I can make any semi-auto pistol except the Luger fire on full auto, but I was an armorer and knew what to look for. Besides, that's illegal and experimenters usually kill themselves. So don't try this at home.