Call it a black rifle. Call it a death ray. Call it the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. The facts are that they are RARELY used in criminal murder, the supposed concern.
The freaking NY Times says this:
80% of all murders, each year, consistently, pre ban, post ban, are...hand guns.
The politically defined category of weapons that have 'military style' features, including SHOTGUNS and HANDGUNS, accounted for about 2% of murders. The actual 'assault weapons' the media likes to swoon over, the AR platform, account for less than 1% and the FBI says it's statistically irrelevant.
If you care about violent murder in the US, you'd not focus on rifles of ANY kind. AR's would not even make the list.
So, the real question is WHY? DO black lives matter? If so, handguns and the drug business is where you'd focus. So, when you hear about assault weapons you're listening to someone who if they care about gun violence and especially the majority of it, black victims, ask them why they're not focusing on the real problems.