Excellent article on why assault rifles were invented

Posted: Feb 3, 2013

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/257441/ "As we were finishing our basic training, we were briefed on new military research coming from data about soldiers in combat in Korea. The research found that most soldiers trained like me rarely remembered to fire more than one shot in a combat firefight. The brain freezes under high stress. Trained routines like aiming a gun and firing an aimed shot at an enemy rarely kick in. Young soldiers panic; they freeze. They don’t remember to even fire their weapon in self-defense. The military researchers said they couldn’t solve the problem of high stress and the brain freezing up in combat, so they were developing a new type of weapon that didn’t need an aimed shot or even to remember to pull the trigger more than once. It was called an assault weapon. All a soldier had to do was pull the trigger once and 100 rounds would go practically at once. No need to aim, just point in the general direction and fire." The entire article is worth reading ;