- "Simmmonns...I-I can'tt ffeeel my handdds."
- —Grif
- "Maybe you should lay off the trigger, you dumbass."
- —Simmons in Motion to Adjourn
The Assault Rifle is a firearm that many characters in the series have used. It is the standard-issue service rifle used by most of the cast of Red vs Blue before being replaced by the Battle Rifle, even then it has popped up in the hands of various other characters as the series went on.
Users[]
- Caboose: The Assault Rifle is Caboose's signature weapon since Reconstruction and has also been seen using it to fight the eternally spawning Grunts at Battle Creek. Although he rarely ever uses it due to his habit of usually not taking part in battles. (Mixed in with his teammates fears of his team killing tendencies) However, by the Season 12 finale and throughout Season 13, Caboose's pet robot Freckles has been implanted into his assault rifle.
- Tex: Tex used one from Season 1 to Season 3 until she began to use the Battle Rifle.
- Lopez: It was also used by Lopez during Season 1.
- Simmons and Grif: The two both carried one in Season 1 and Season 2, such as during the attack on Blue Base in Motion to Adjourn.
- Rat's Nest Blues: All the Blues at Rat's Nest were seen carrying them in Reconstruction.
- Washington: Wash grabbed one from the grounds to take down a Hornet bothering the Reds in Reconstruction: Chapter 14.
- Insurrection: In Season 9, it is used by most members of the Insurrectionists frequently.
- South Dakota: South also commonly used an Assault Rifle throughout the Project Freelancer scenes in Season 10.
- Florida: In the episode C.T., Florida uses an Assault Rifle with an added grenade launcher, which he utilized to eliminate Chain Guy and Chain Girl during the battle at the Longshore Shipyards.
- Feds: Most of the ground soldiers of Federal Army of Chorus that have a sage or blue trim, primarily use the assault rifle. Although those with red trim (the Heavy Weapons Specialists) typically have assault rifles on their back as well. Interestingly in Capital Assets both General Doyle and Kimball get into an argument about the Fed Soldier's tendency to use Assault Rifles. With the latter sating that they'll run out of ammo faster.
Freckles housed inside an assault rifle.
- Freckles: After having his body destroyed, Freckles was moved into Caboose's assault rifle during Fed vs. New by Doctor Grey. As revealed in Season 13, Dr. Grey has also added a lot of new features into Freckle's Assault Rifle form. Including scanning heat signatures, Google Translate and also has full control over the rifle, unlike Caboose whom when he pulls the trigger only manages to fire confetti and make fun party sounds. Dr. Grey also added a function called "Aimbot" which she shows off in Temple of the Key, this allows Freckles to automatically and almost immediately take out several targets in quick succession with extremely lethal precision. In Armonia, Part 2, this essentially makes Caboose into a living weapon thanks to his immensely tight grip on the Freckles. As mixed with the rifle's ability to use heat scanners, makes even Active Camouflage all but useless against Freckles.
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Trivia[]
- Caboose, in the switch to Halo 3 and onward, is the only Blood Gulch team member primarily armed with an Assault Rifle as opposed to a Battle Rifle. This is seemingly to compliment the fact Caboose is the only character still wearing the older Mark V armor from the original Halo: Combat Evolved title. In season 11's beginning episodes, Caboose had received new armor (the Mark V armor was not available to players or Rooster Teeth at the time), but still carried an Assault Rifle.