Jerry Figari, Jensen Beach


Letter: Terminology misapplied on these weapons

It's too bad low information liberals do not spend the time educating themselves on 'assault weapons.' Let's set the record straight.

The rifle used by the Orlando shooter was a Sig Sauer, not an AR-15 as so many in the media reported.

Experienced shooters define assault weapons by the ability to go fully automatic, which means that as long as you hold the trigger, the gun keeps firing. The gun used in Orlando was semi-automatic, which means, each time you pull the trigger, one bullet is fired.

Just because the gun looks like an assault weapon doesn't make it an assault weapon.

Also, the 'AR' as in AR-15, does not mean 'assault rifle. It is an acromym for civilian version of the M16.

Armalite invented the M16 in the late 1950s. The civilian version was designated the AR-15. All the civilian versions of Armalite's guns are designated with the prefix AR.

Just because the AR-15 looks like and M16, it doesn't make it so.

You can go to any gun store and buy a traditional semi-automatic rifles or shotguns with the wood stocks, and the guns would be the same as your ARs.

Sen. Bill Nelson said, 'I am a hunter and I do not see the need for these type of guns.' Well, I am not a hunter, but I enjoy going to the range and shooting the gun I was trained to shoot in the military.

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