Nine Rounds a Second: Why the Las Vegas Shooting Was Different
Mainstream journalism being fast-and-loose with weapon definitions again. I&#x27;m not sure if the NY times can&#x27;t get it right, or they don&#x27;t want to.<p>&quot;Assault-style rifle&quot; has no definition from what I can tell, other than getting used repeatedly by the news when &quot;assault rifle&quot; is technically incorrect but it looks like an assault rifle and they want to use the word &quot;assault&quot; near the word &quot;rifle&quot;.<p>And &quot;semiautomatic AR-15-style assault rifle&quot; is just wrong. Semiautomatic-only rifles are not considered assault rifles.