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Charly,
I feel bad for you. You're position regarding assault weapons has been horribly twisted by the media.
Assault weapons (specifically AR-15's) ARE used extensively for target shooting and hunting.
There are many national competition, in which highly skilled individuals shoot out to over 600 yards with open iron sights. It takes tremendous skill and ability to hold an 8-10 pound rifle steady enough to align your sights out to a distance that far.
It's a blast to attend, and compete in such a demanding sport.
Futhermore, many individuals do hunt with assault rifles. Because of they are usually chambered in a small round, they are limited to hunting small game. Many hunt varmint and other animals. However, unlike what the media portrays, they don't hunt with 90 round magazines. The Department of Fish and Game regulates hunting, and stipulates that in many places you can only hunt with a 10 round magazine.
Assault weapons do not have a higher rate of fire or "capacity for firepower" than a garden-variety deer rifle: all "assault weapons" are semi-automatic firearms, which means that they fire a single round per trigger pull; they are not the fully-automatic machine guns that they are frequently misrepresented as.
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