Assault Weapon

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An automatic or semiautomatic weapon that holds 30 or more rounds of ammunition and which is generally understood to fire one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. There is no technical military definition of assault weapon other than that referring to a weapon used in a military assault operation. The US Army does define the term assault rifle as a short, compact, selective-fire weapon that fires a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges

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I don't think assault weapons in schools, carried by any school personnel, is the appropriate thing," DeVos replied, adding that "But again this is an issue that I think is best decided at the local level by communities and by states.

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