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I bet it was because the guy had a bandana on his head like A MUSLIM TERRORIST.
Though personally my blood would go North of the Wall if I happened to see a guy leisurely carrying a damn assault rifle. I saw the title and thought of some ye olde hunting rifle, carried on the back.
Assault Rifle : any of various automatic or semiautomatic rifles with large capacity magazines
designed for military use.
Assault Weapon : any of various automatic or semiautomatic firearms
designed for civilian or military use.
An Assault Rifle is an Assault Weapon, but an Assault Weapon is not necessarily an Assault Rifle unless it's designed for military use, and of course it meets the other conditions.
The fact is, that just about any weapon out there can be fit into that very open definition for an Assault Weapon, and there is another issue. No gun control law that has been passed anywhere has ever lowered violent crimes. In America, where criminals get easy access to guns illegally, care of an open border with Mexico which the liberals don't want to even try to secure, each gun control law leads not only to higher violent crime rates in general, but also higher gun crime rates and gun homicide rates. Just look at Chicago.
ABC News debunks the myths of gun control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682JLrsUmEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9RN_iSKtg
Gun control failed in Australia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyS3CEIbpJo