Category talk:Assault Rifle

Inclusions, Exclusions

Hey, it's me. Pyr0. You may know me as the guy who continuously causes problems. Well, I'm going to honor that legacy today by asking a serious question about our definition of an assault rifle. Now, I'm not going to do a politician-esque push for every single scary-looking thing under the sun (and a fair few things above it) to be considered an assault rifle. My question is actually about requirement number (b): the 300-meter range requirement. See, after a discussion regarding classifications on the H3VR page (man, that's the start of a lot of things around here, isn't it), I got thinking about that requirement, and started to question why it's there. I mean, the only real reason it's there is to eliminate, like, one or two specific guns that would otherwise fit in (the requirement itself even says so), which seems a bit arbitrary, especially when we still include things that don't meet that 300-meter requirement, like the SR-3M Vikhr, the KAC PDW, and perhaps most egregiously, the APS Underwater Assault Rifle, which has a stated effective range of only 55 yards in open air, and a mere 100 feet in the water (not to mention a few things that, while I'm not 100% sure about, I seriously doubt can pull off 300 meters, like the AAC Honey Badger, or the CSA SA vz. 58 Compact). I mean, effective range isn't a classification requirement for any other weapon type on this site - not even the sniper rifles. Therefore, I think that we should remove the requirement, and include things like the M2 Carbine (since, according to Category:Carbine, .30 Carbine is a rifle cartridge) that were previously excluded. Thoughts? Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 18:41, 29 July 2018 (EDT) P.S.: 10 bucks says Tim's the first one to reply, and he says something that's both really longwinded and really insightful.

You lose ten then. :P Ok maybe you have a bit of a rationale but bein' real, the M2 was not intended to be an 'assault rifle' as it is known, nor should it be considered one. It doesn't fire what is considered a rifle round, it originally did not have select fire (nor again was intended to), and yes, really is not meant to be used nor is really worth a shit at 300 or so meters. Honestly, it's its own animal as far as classification goes and trying to stretch and alter everything else to have it fit under a certain umbrella seems no less arbitrary. I have no problem with it being excluded. As for those other pieces, while I grant the range part is debatable, they fit the other criteria and always did. Though I must concur the APS has no business being included for the same reason the M2 doesn't: that one's clearly not intended to be - and thus should not be considered - an 'assault rifle' as the classification is generally known and accepted because frankly, it just isn't, the 'platform' it's built off of notwithstanding. Hell, being all technical I'd argue it has no place being defined as a rifle in the first place since it shoots darts through a smoothbore barrel, in fact. But that's something else. StanTheMan (talk) 14:26, 30 July 2018 (EDT)