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New player here, if a model has assault 3, does it get the 3 shots even if it didnt advance

Page 5 of the battle primer " The number of attacks a model can make with a weapon, and therefore the number of dice you can roll, is found on the weapon’s profile..."

So you get 3 attacks since that is how many the weapons profile has. There is nothing that says you must advance to use weapons that are Assault X (1,2,3, etc...)

Assault weapons are the only ones that can be used to shoot after advancing with -1 to hit, unless a special rule says otherwise.