First, let’s clear up one of the most abused terms in the firearms debate. An AR-15 is not an assault rifle. Calling it one doesn’t make you a firearms expert. It simply tells knowledgeable shooters that you’ve been repeating political talking points instead of learning the difference. An assault rifle has a long established military definition. It is a select fire rifle that can operate in both semiautomatic and fully automatic modes. A civilian AR-15 is semiautomatic only. One trigger pull fires one round. It is not capable of fully automatic fire without illegal modification. Unfortunately, far too many politicians, television commentators, and even some law enforcement spokespeople casually toss around the term “assault rifle” as if saying it often enough somehow changes the definition. It doesn’t. Words still matter, even if they occasionally get lost in a press conference. The term “assault weapon” became a political label decades ago for fear mongering purposes  and has ...