re: 70% of Young Americans think we should be allowed to own Assualt Rifles

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I think it's pretty widely accepted the term "assault rifle or weapon" refers to semi auto rifles that are similar in appearance to military full auto versions.

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First - I disagree with you completely.

Second - Even if it were generally true, the press seems to go out of its way to get people to conflate semi-automatic with their select fire versions when they do stories and take polls about so-called "assault weapons".

So, even if it were "widely accepted" for a brief period of history, the effort to demonize the term, and therefore the weapons and their law-abiding owners, has nixed all of that.