On its website, top dictionary resource Merriam-Webster has changed the definition of an assault rifle to where it now includes most modern sporting rifles that are popular in the United States.
Updated in March 2018, Merriam-Webster defines an assault rifle as:
any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire; also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire
Responses to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting were used as examples for the new definition – READ MORE
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