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What makes a gun an assault rifle?

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    William La Jeunesse reports from Los Angeles

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Pit -- alert now a little over three hours President Obama will announce his plans to crack down on guns and is expected to include another ban on assault weapons here we go again.

But what makes -- -- an assault weapon.

-- -- -- -- -- -- with that answer William that's a question of the day is -- Yeah you know so that the semantics we're talking about what is a military style or assault rifle so take a look at this full screen begun on top.

Is legal.

The one of the bottom is not.

Yet -- the same -- and they shoot the same bullet which is why some argue the term assault weapon is misleading.

Number one myth has to be that they -- machine guns they're not machine guns.

These are semi auto.

Meaning I pull the trigger one time.

Goes boom one time boom boom boom.

It's does not go -- like that's -- new assault weapons bill bans any gone with more than one military characteristic.

Military characteristics would be.

He telescoping stock.

Pistol grip.

Gun advocates call those cosmetic definitions that have nothing to do with crime or carnage this -- a thirty -- six which is capable of going through about three people.

Whereas the 223.

-- gonna stop in the first person it shoots senator Dianne Feinstein claims her assault weapons -- targets America's most dangerous guns.

Yet none of the nation's top crime guns are on her list these little grounds here.

Seem to be more of a problem.

Than these guns.

So why are they coming after these guns feinstein's bill also outlaws the thumb -- stock seen here high capacity magazines.

And -- button that allows users to change them quickly.

Is it more dangerous.

-- -- 310 round magazines.

-- Ten times.

Ten times.

That was pretty slow and I still.

Change -- 310 round magazines.

In less than ten seconds.

So the difference between the last assault weapons -- -- this one is any gun with more than one military characteristic is -- the president -- executive order.

Can limit the importation of assault weapons but a band would have to go through congress -- Wow William -- I'm not a gun guy all this gets extremely confuse your people who don't grow up around it.

And eases some of the debates are going to be happen today -- and William your -- your report made it very simple to understand what a lot of people have been talking about and now we know.

We thank you for getting up sorely out there -- -- explain.

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