No, assault rifle is a select fire weapon, usually capable of burst fire, but also capable of automatic fire. It has an actual definition, which the TC did not use correctly in his shitty attempt at classifying a small game hunting rifle as an assault rifle.
He said "sporting rifle" is useless as a term, and I said that so is "assault rifle" when a bolt action gun with a detachable mag, telescoping stock and a pistol grip can qualify as one. Stop trying to gunsplain. I know more than you.
Lol except the definition Merriam-Webster use specifically requires semi-auto which bolt-actions by definition are incapable of. So does the Assault Rifle ban.
For someone on such a tall soapbox, that is a pretty stupid thing to say.
Too bad the assault WEAPONS ban does NOT exclude bolt-action rifles, defining ALL semi-automatic weapons OR ANY weapons CAPABLE of accepting a ten-round magazine.
Mosin Nagant bolt-action rifles and WW2-era Garands fit this description. The Mosin Nagant is also explicitly named in the assault weapons ban.