assault rifle

Meaning

Noun

• A military select-fire rifle or carbine that fires a shortened rifle caliber round or lower-power smaller-calibre round, from a high-capacity magazine.
• Any firearm meeting the definition of an assault weapon, and in the form of a rifle.

Origin

• . The Maschinenpistole 44 was called the Sturmgewehr by Adolf Hitler, whence it was renamed to represent the separate class of firearm it represented.