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<blockquote data-quote="scratch" data-source="post: 1071295" data-attributes="member: 1674"><p>The term &quot;Assault Rifle&quot; is misused all the time by people that have no knowledge of weapons. The first modern true assault rifle was probably the Sturmgewehr 44 that entered service with the German Army in 1944. It was a rifle with a high capacity magazine that was a full automatic. This was followed three years later by the famous Russian made AK-47 in 1947. My father carried a Browning Automatic Rifle in WW2, it looked like a regular rifle , but it was a full automatic with a 20 round magazine that was usually called a &quot;light machine gun&quot;.What finally developed as the AR-15 was from the AR-10 designed by Eugene Stoner of the Fairchild ArmaLite Corporation in the late 1950&#039;s. The &quot;AR&quot; in the name refers to the semi-automatic rifle developed by the Armalite Corp, it doesn&#039;t stand for &quot;assault rifle&quot;, this idea was made up in the media. Colt bought the patent from Armalite in 1959 and developed the M-16 full automatic version for the US Army.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="scratch, post: 1071295, member: 1674"] The term "Assault Rifle" is misused all the time by people that have no knowledge of weapons. The first modern true assault rifle was probably the Sturmgewehr 44 that entered service with the German Army in 1944. It was a rifle with a high capacity magazine that was a full automatic. This was followed three years later by the famous Russian made AK-47 in 1947. My father carried a Browning Automatic Rifle in WW2, it looked like a regular rifle , but it was a full automatic with a 20 round magazine that was usually called a "light machine gun".What finally developed as the AR-15 was from the AR-10 designed by Eugene Stoner of the Fairchild ArmaLite Corporation in the late 1950's. The "AR" in the name refers to the semi-automatic rifle developed by the Armalite Corp, it doesn't stand for "assault rifle", this idea was made up in the media. Colt bought the patent from Armalite in 1959 and developed the M-16 full automatic version for the US Army. [/QUOTE]

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