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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Oh i see. You describe every modern gun. Single shot bolt actions aka Hunting guns aka sniper rifles, and shot guns and revolvers and semi automatic pistols. So in your mind every guns is an assault weapon. Thus we conclude you wish to ban every gun. Congrats ! You are a super genius!

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