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Hartford Courant OpEd: 2nd Amendment does not include “assault rifles”

By Steve McGough / February 10, 2016 /

In an opinion piece published in the Hartford Courant today by Noah Feldman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard, Feldman outright states the 2nd Amendment does not include assault rifles. His reasoning comes down to this*, with my emphasis. … there’s something special about weapons that can be used both for self-defense and for militias … those…

Law enforcement AR-15s referred to as “patrol rifles” – not assault weapons – in media

By Steve McGough / January 3, 2013 /

I found this interesting. When the media refers to rifles used by law enforcement during a shooting event, they reference the standard AR-15 semi-automatic rifle as a “patrol rifle” rather than an “assault weapon.”