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What do you mean? Assault rifles are perfectly legal
Assault rifles are full auto or burst fire. They're not legal for civilians without a specific form of FFL, which is difficult and expensive to get. Even with an FFL you will probably run into problems with state and local laws. That's why you'll pretty much only see assault rifles at places like the ones outside Vegas where they let you pay to fire one for a few minutes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_rifle
Fully automatic weapons can be legally owned after a mere $200 application to the ATF.
The real hurdle is the closed nature of the full auto registry creates artificial scarcity and pushes the price of the gun itself up.
But, assuming you have the money, it is a straightforward process no more complicated or time consuming than legally owning an SBR.
Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. Here is the transfer form. Block 4B is where you list what type of NFA item you are buying.
I think they call em "assault weapons" and they're basically anything high capacity and semi auto and black and scary. Basically no recent discourse about assault whatever has actually referred to burst or auto weapons.
I think you're probably right that those are what the law is targeting, and Newsweek is simply lying in this article.
I went and read the text. The TLDR is the law was targeted to semiautomatic weapons, but the text itself defined those as "assault rifles".
The text proposed banning "assault rifles" and within the bill it laid out a definition for the purposes of the bill:
https://legiscan.com/HI/text/SB401/id/3226101
More likely they have no idea what the difference is