In message someone claiming to be bill
typed:

Can you define 'assault weapon' for me please?

As far as I'm a ware it's a US propaganda term for 'big scary black gun'.

That seems to be the case. In Canada it was recently decided that a
kinda-sorta-looks-like-an-AK47 gun should be illegal:

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/...586/story.html

Smart!

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