Quibbling over the definition of an assault weapon is silly. All it does is deflect attention from the issue at hand.

Here's an idea: "Assault weapon" or not, if it repeats and repeats and repeats, you know, like a "machine gun" in the old time war movies, then a private citizen has no fucking business owning such a weapon. And if Obama (a man who I was more than a little disappointed with in his first term) finds a way to deregulate them and strikes a victory against the NRA, then I hope it defines his Presidency. I'll never criticize him again.

Fuck the NRA, their screwball President and their Second Amendment obsessed supporters. And again, I legally own three guns with licenses in both Florida and New York State. But no one needs an assault, er, scratch that, no one needs a weapon that repeats and repeats and repeats.