A term with multiple meanings;
As an object, any automatic and/or burst fire compatible detachable box magazine fed firearms. It should be noted that as an object it must have BOTH a detachable magazine AND automatic and/or burst fire to be considered an assault anything, but does not have to be both automatic and burst fire, not does it require a semi-automatic mode.
As a legal term, semiautomatic firearms with a magazine in excess of ten rounds.
Of the variety of assault weapons are the normally automatic only MAC-11 sub-machinepistol, the automatic only French MAT-49 is a sub-machine gun, the American and Russian selective fire M-16 and AK-47 (respectively), and the French automatic only Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG Infantry support Weapon.
Can refer to multiple things:
a. Assault Rifle - a technical term used to describe a rifle with select fire capability, detachable magazine and that fired intermediate cartridge
b. Political term which is used in multiple bans, first started off in 1994 from Federal Assault Weapon Ban, which banned firearms by features and whether firearm can accept s detachable magazine.
If you are not being threatened with violence then pointing a gun at the other person would constitute assault with a deadly weapon (felony) and brandishing a firearm. If you didn't have a concealed carry permit, you would also be guilty of carrying without a permit (first offense misdemeanor or felony, second offense felony). You would be arrested, lose your gun, go to jail, probably for more than a year, and lose your right to keep and bear arms. Exact penalty would depend on plea bargaining, the quality of your attorney and what the judge had for breakfast.
Some fool starts yelling at you after a fender bender and you pull out your glock and he calls the cops it will probably be assault with a deadly weapon.
And then when your kids keep getting murder BECAUSE AN ONLY BECAUSE you are a piece of shit... You will need a hunting weapons ban. And when it happens AGAIN you'll need a pistol ban. Shit like this is the reason your kids get murdered and you deserve it everything it happens.
Hym "Ain't no assault weapons ban going to save your kids from people doing shit like this and YOUR KIDS WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONES WHO PAY THE PRICE. YOU not being a piece of shit and YOU allowing people to do ahit like this to me is WHY I AM GOING TO MURDER AS MANY KIDS AS I CAN. I'M not the piece of shit. I'm the creator of A.I. stalking and harassment for years guy. I have a right to a gun AND I have a right to punish you for what you're doing here and IF YOU DON'T ENSURE THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED, I WILL ENSURE THAT THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE!"