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02-26-2018, 03:33 PM
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IIRC the M16 fires a three round burst in auto mode. Seems that soldiers were wasting ammo and warping barrels in the earlier full auto models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M16_rifle
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02-26-2018, 03:50 PM
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not-automatic: you at least have to manually work the mechanism to load a new round after one shot, and cock the hammer so it will fire when the trigger is pulled.
semi-automatic: after a shot, a new round is chambered and the hammer is cocked automatically. All you have to do to fire again is pull the trigger again.
automatic: cambering, cocking, and firing all happen automatically and repeatedly as long as the trigger is held down.
machine-gun: an automatic weapon.
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Single Action to replace Non-Auto.
Add Sub Machine Gun also, a full auto firing a pistol round.
Where a rifle round is used in a Machine Gun.
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02-26-2018, 03:55 PM
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Goes further back then that. In the Civil War (What's so civil 'bout war anyway?) when the repeating rife was never fully embraced because the want of saving money on ammo.
Same on the 1903 bolt action having a selector for single action load one at a time leaving the mag untouched.
Bean counters have been dictating policy for a long time.
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02-26-2018, 04:35 PM
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Georgia conservatives are threatening Delta Airlines by taking away their tax breaks for dropping their sponsorship of NRA. Played correctly, this could be a marketing boon for Delta. Another act of stupidity by the GOP. Sell out school kids for the hated NRA?
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02-26-2018, 06:14 PM
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Brilliant.
LMAO
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Shortly after he declared that he would have run into a Florida high school unarmed to thwart a mass shooting, Donald J. Trump announced that he was planning a parade in Washington, D.C., to celebrate his hypothetical act of heroism.
“Anyone can act with bravery in the moment,” Trump told reporters in the White House. “But it takes a very special kind of hero to tell people about the incredibly brave thing he would have done weeks after the thing happened.”
He added that it was one of his greatest regrets that bone spurs prevented him from serving in the Vietnam War, “because the really courageous things I would have done during that war would have been off the charts.”
“As soon as the Tet Offensive happened, I would have run unarmed right into that mess,” he said. “We probably would have won the war right after I did that.”
Trump said that the parade he was ordering would honor not only him but all of America’s “last responders.”
According to a new poll, Trump’s assertion that he would have run into the Florida high school unarmed was believed by his daughter Ivanka.
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02-26-2018, 06:41 PM
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Some good info on auto, semi auto, and full auto given here. Knowing what we are talking about is important. ☺
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Some good info on auto, semi auto, and full auto given here. Knowing what we are talking about is important. ☺
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Just so long as you fill your deer tags, we're good, JJ.
How's the turkey hunting up in your holler? Out here in Lala Land, actually Lake Lopez, they keep the varmints well fed.
Good bass fishin', too, when we have water.
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We got wild turkeys running around like they own the the place (they do).
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