It has always been the ultimate desire of mankind to conquer, invade and win something which doesn’t belong to him. These desires gave rise to the development of deadly weapons and killing machines that can be used to kill people effortlessly. One of these deadly inventions was the ‘assault rifle’.
An assault rifle is a selective fire rifle that uses an intermediate-power cartridge and a detachable magazine. It is a lightweight rifle developed from the sub-machine gun, which may be set to fire automatically or semi automatically. By United States army definition, a selective fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power. If applied to any semi-automatic firearm regardless of its cosmetic similarity to true assault rifle, the term is incorrect. United States Army has specified some characteristics which a firearm must have to be considered as an
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The new weapon, was named as the MP43, MP44, or Sturmgewehr (“Assault Rifle”) 44, was loaded by a curved box magazine capable of holding 30 rounds and was designed for most-effective fire at about 300 yards (270 metres). Only 425,000 to 440,000 of these rifles were produced-too few for the millions of soldiers fighting the war —but that was the beginning of a new era of weapons. The term assault rifle is believed to have been coined by Adolf Hitler. Toward the end of World War II, the story goes, Hitler hailed his army’s new wonder weapon by insisting that it be called not by the technical name given it by its developers, the Machinenpistole (the German name for a submachine gun), but rather something that made for better propaganda copy. A Sturmgewehr, Hitler named the new gun: a “storm” or “assault”