assault rifle

Etymology
. The Maschinenpistole 44 was called the Sturmgewehr by Adolf Hitler, whence it was renamed to represent the separate class of firearm it represented.

Noun

 * 1) A military select-fire rifle or carbine that fires a shortened rifle caliber round or lower-power smaller-calibre round, from a high-capacity magazine.
 * 2)  Any firearm meeting the definition of an assault weapon, and in the form of a rifle.
 * 1)  Any firearm meeting the definition of an assault weapon, and in the form of a rifle.

Usage notes

 * Especially in the US, some or all types of semi automatic rifles (assault weapons) are sometimes referred to as assault rifles.

Translations

 * Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّة هُجُومِيَّة
 * Hijazi Arabic: رَشَّاش
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 突擊步槍, 攻擊步槍
 * Czech: útočná puška
 * Danish: stormgevær
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: álopsbyrsa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: senapan serbu
 * Italian: fucile d'assalto
 * Japanese: 突撃銃,
 * Korean: 돌격소총
 * Lithuanian: automatas, šturmo šautuvais
 * Norwegian: automatgevær
 * Polish: karabin automatyczny
 * Portuguese: fuzil de assalto
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: automat
 * Slovene: jurišna puška, avtomatska puška
 * Spanish: fusil de asalto, rifle de asalto,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: piyade Tüfeği
 * Ukrainian: штурмова́ гвинті́вка,