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.