In reality, you understand when politicans and the media say assault rifle, they don't mean class III weapons, right?

Thats the only definition that matters.

Oh, I am sorry. I wasn't aware we were going by what you thought the definition of words meant.

They mean pistol grips, detatch mags, bayonet lugs, VFGs and stupid shit like that.

Since you like to play on words, a fully automatic AR-15 is not an Assault Rifle?

Way to steer away from the real arguement of whether or not fully automatic weapons are needed for home defense. You sound like the "liberal media" you seem to have problems with by talking about everything BUT the topic.

A fully automatic AR-15 would be an M-16, welcome to the world of guns.

You could also see M-4 and other varieties of the same militarized versions of the originals.

And fyi, the ATF classifies semi automatic AK/AR pattern rifles as Assault Rifles, even if semi-auto, anything that is select fire is considered a Machine gun.

Having filled out a ton of class III paperwork for both machine gun, suppressor, and short barrel rifles, their distinction, political distinction, and media distinction.. not wikipedia (And when did that become a reliable source for anything?) is the only relevant definition.

Umm no converting an AR-15 to fully auto doesn't magically turn it into an M-16.

Where is anyone referring to having/needing fully automatic weapons for home defense.

I think you're being stupid and confusing assault rifle with assault weapon, again.

Also, no one has issued full auto M16s in decades.

So does that make the armories of our Infantry and SOC consist of non assault AR 15s?