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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of rifles in this country are semi-automatic.  Semi-automatic means that for each pull of the trigger one and only one bullet is fired.  The AR15 style rifle that is being portrayed as an "assault weapon" is a semi-automatic rifle.  Semi-automatic rifles such as the AR15 are not fully-automatic.  Fully-automatic means that for every pull of the trigger multiple bullets are fired.  Fully-automatic rifle are heavily regulated, extremely rare, and extremely expensive.  And by expensive I mead upward up $20,000.  And although the semi-automatic AR15 looks like the rifle that is used in the military it is very very different.  The military version is fully-automatic.  Contrary to what the media is telling us, semi-automatic rifles like the AR15 do not spray bullets.

The term "assault weapon" is being used to describe semi-automatic rifles because it is similar to the term "assault-rifle" which technically describes fully-automatic rifles.

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That actually describes what I thought of as an "assault weapon" pretty well!  I wasn't envisioning a machine gun.    Just a gun where you can fire maybe one bullet every 5 seconds.  Bam.   Bam... Bam.... like that.   Is that about how fast they can fire, OP?

It sounds pretty bad to me.   And I can't see why you would need an AR15 for hunting either. I hope this weapon will be banned.  [/quote]

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