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7/17/2025, 9:21:14 PM
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>So you're saying that those conditions are neither necessary nor sufficient?
That's correct, they are neither necessary nor sufficient. For all intents and purposes the HK36 is a assault rifle, even though it is not fed from a detachable box magazine. The HK36 is fed from a detachable box mag, but it is a (light) machinegun.
>In that case, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions to define an assault rifle?
I'd like to misquote Justice Potter Stewart on this:
>I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["assault rifle"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the carbine involved in this case is not that, although it is an awesome gun.
If you want, you can post your own criteria. I'll probably chime in a few hours.
>So you're saying that those conditions are neither necessary nor sufficient?
That's correct, they are neither necessary nor sufficient. For all intents and purposes the HK36 is a assault rifle, even though it is not fed from a detachable box magazine. The HK36 is fed from a detachable box mag, but it is a (light) machinegun.
>In that case, what are the necessary and sufficient conditions to define an assault rifle?
I'd like to misquote Justice Potter Stewart on this:
>I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["assault rifle"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the carbine involved in this case is not that, although it is an awesome gun.
If you want, you can post your own criteria. I'll probably chime in a few hours.
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