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There's your problem, "video games" are not necessarily representative of reality.
"Assault weapon" is a term invented by gun control activists to A) sound scary to drum up support and B) expand their bans to handguns.
"Assault Rifle" is an actual term, where they got the idea, and the source of this intentional confusion caused by MDA and Everytown. Assault Rifles are defined as "A select fire rifle in an intermediate calibre intended for infantry use." The bolded parts in the above definition mean the AR-15 is not in this catagory, as it is only semi-automatic (no select fire) and intended for civilian use, not infantry. The M4 and the M16 are both rifles that do fit the above definition, and the AR-15 is cosmetically similar, but the main function (the select/semi part) is different. In fact, civilians have not been able to own rifles that are select fire since 1986 (unless you have your Class III SOT, the permit required to own one, but for that you basically have to be building/selling them to mil and/or police).
Video game devs aren't necessarily known for being experts on guns, laws, etc, but to be fair to them, they don't need to be, because video games aren't real (sadly, as much as I would love to live in my Viva Pinata 1 garden I have had to come to terms with the imposibility of my dreams).