Forum Overview :: Biohazard: Code Veronica :: Senor Barboritio MetaFilter Post

[quote name="Senor Barboritio MetaFilter Post"]<i>For a few minutes is it possible to drop the dogma and wonder objectively who started calling rifles assault weapons, and why?</i> Actually, supposedly the answer to that question is one Adolf Hitler, when he dubbed the new MP-44 the "Sturmgewehr." Regardless of whether it was him or someone a few ranks further down, the term "assault rifle" in all seriousness originates in Nazi Germany.[/quote]