User talk:Master Sergeant (US Army-Retired)

Your edit on M16 rifle
Hello. You're partly right and partly wrong, you're right when you say that the AR in AR-15 etc stands for "Armalite Rifle", but you're dead wrong when you claim that "assault rifle" is a "made up term, invented by the media and others that wanted to put a scary name to an otherwise normal weapon". You seem to conflate the US-only political/legal term assault weapon with the 70+ years old internationally accepted and used term assault rifle, which is the name for a specific type of military rifle (to be precise a selective fire rifle chambered for an intermediate cartridge), as a direct translation of the German compound noun "Sturmgewehr", deriving from the name of the first true assault rifle in the world, Sturmgewehr 44. The term "assault rifle" is used here on the English language Wikipedia on all articles about military firearms that fit the true international definition of the term, regardless of the "nationality" of the weapon, and we intend to keep on using it, so stop trying to change it. - Tom &#124; Thomas.W talk 09:47, 8 August 2018 (UTC)