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Default 06-10-2004, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Merlin122
an assault rifle has a a fully automatic function to compensate for a user's inaccuracy. good enough?
But the Thompson is automatic and they classify it as a sub-machine gun.

I don't care why they call it an "assault" rifle I'm just curious to what it has to be to classify it as one... is it because of the caliber of the round, length, weight? lol
  
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