ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
An assault rifle can fire multi-fire/full auto where as the ones being used to hunt are semi auto only.
Sorry but full auto's are illegal except to those with special license. The assault weopens ban is for semi auto only rifles that share cosmetic features with thier fully auto breathern. The newer sporting rifles look more like assault rifles, and hunting with AR-15's, and simi auto AK 47's is becoming more common.
BTW this is off topic so no more.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...2141357AAmhPKU
http://www.military.com/entertainmen...-round-up.html
Assault rifles are select fire rifles only. The ones used for hunting are not select fire and therefore not an assault rifle. The point is it is the perceived difference or similarities that are the root problem. In both cases emotion is the driving factor not logic. Drones will take away my privacy therefore if it looks like a drone it is bad. No matter what it is for it will be lumped into the same pile and regulated the same unless logic and reason prevail. The problem is we are talking about the public opinion and we all know logic and reason have no business there.