Definition of assault rifle Assault rifle

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What does assault rifle mean?

Noun
assault rifle - any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use
		assault gun
		automatic rifle, machine rifle, automatic light machine gun

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assault rifle (Noun)
A military style automatic rifle or carbine that fires a shortened rifle caliber round or lower power smaller calibre round larger than pistol ammunition from a high capacity magazine.
assault rifle (Noun)
Any assault weapon .

An assault rifle is a rifle that has a magazine that can be removed, can be fired automatically, and fires bullets that do not have the power of other rifles like hunting rifles or battle rifles, but have more power and penatration then pistol bullets fired by submachine guns.

The first assault rifles were Russian, but the Germans in World War II were the first to use assault rifles in large numbers.

An example of an assault rifle is the AK-47.

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