Assertion: assault rifle's design | /r/AtLocation | early twentieth century
Facets:
value: popularly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Though the semiautomatic design used in today’s pistols, rifles and shotguns was invented in the late-nineteenth century and was popularly sold to consumers in America and Europe in the early twentieth century, the modern sporting rifle has been called a “weapon of war” by those who want to ban them.