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[venta]

One question: why is it called an "assault rifle" ? Are there other kinds of rifle used for non-assault purposes ? Friendly-greeting rifles ?

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[venta.livejournal.com]

I liked the first version better :)

I had looked at the Wiki page and concluded that an assault rifle did differ from battle (and presumably hunting) rifles. I couldn't quite fathom the name, though, since I'd assumed it to be descriptive in some way rather than spin. However it seems "it sounded cool" is about the size of it.

[chrisvenus]

Well surely from what secondhand_rick said an assault rifle is better for assaults. You know, you're going into a building and running through corridors and doorways and generally assaulting places and you'd want the shorter rifle to not keep banging it on doors and things I expect... You probably wouldn't care about this distinction so much if you weren't assaulting places.