Webster changes the definition of Assault Rifle

[PeterD]

And this is how the world gets changed.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/31/merr...-shooting/

[just_john]

some 3000 years ago, David's sling and his bag with 5 smooth stones would then have been classified as an assault weapon. And, he used it to take down the bad guy. I don't remember reading about any 30.06 or 30.07 decals on the flaps of any of their tents, either! I believe that open carry was even legal then.

[Frontier Gear]

It's nothing new. 3,000 years ago they were banning the equivalent of gunsmiths and machinists so they could oppress people.

1 Samuel 13:19-22 [ESV]
19 Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” 20 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle, 21 and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads. 22 So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.