07-19-2016, 09:03 PM
(07-19-2016, 04:48 PM)TomG Wrote: Does that make it an assault rifle?
Tom
Of course it does. Or a Glock. That's an assault rifle too according to the talking heads on the news. I watched them show a picture on the news this evening of the bull pup rifle used by the latest sniper/terrorist/ambush nut-case. That of course was an "AR style" rifle! Say WHAAAAAA!!!!????
And Tom is right. The US rifle, cal .30 M1 uses an en-block clip to hold it's ammunition inside of the rifles magazine, which consists of the receiver walls and feed mechanism which is part of the trigger housing. The en-bloc clip, alone and of itself cannot feed ammunition to the guns chamber. The defining difference between clips and magazines is the presence of a feed mechanism in a magazine, typically a spring-loaded follower, which a clip lacks. And the Garand rifle is not the only rifle that uses this system.
Willie