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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Most guns, probably, if they are all as fast as you are saying.  Are they?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/11/how_many_times_can_you_shoot_a_handgun_in_seven_minutes.html

[quote]Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the army psychiatrist accused of gunning down 13 people at Fort Hood on Thursday, managed to fire 100 rounds with a semiautomatic handgun between the start of his rampage at 1:20 p.m. and the time he was shot at 1:27 p.m. How many rounds can a handgun shoot in seven minutes?
At least 1,500. Modern semiautomatic weapons can discharge a round and load the next bullet into the chamber faster than even the nimblest of fingers can pull the trigger. FBI studies have shown that a novice can fire three shots in less than a second, and a trained shooter can double that. (Two of the officers in the 1999 Amadou Diallo shooting emptied their 16-bullet magazines in about four seconds.) That means an experienced gunman can fire off a 20-round magazine—the likely capacity of Hasan's gun—in 3.3 seconds. Reloading takes under two.   You just press the magazine release button with your shooting hand and insert the new magazine into the grip with your offhand. * Experts holster extra ammunition on the side of their nonshooting hand to speed the exchange and can have the new magazine loaded before the empty one hits the ground. So each 20-round magazine would take no more than 5.3 seconds, including time to reload. That means you could fire off 1,575 shots in seven minutes—provided you were carrying 79 magazines on your person.[/quote]

Seriously?  All guns are like this, you say?  I didn't realize.[/quote]

yes but they are limits. as if you had say one pistol and a bunch of mags. then wanted to shoot them all at once as fast as you can. well your finger and hands would be very tired and you would shoot slower and slower. imagine 100 flights of stairs you wish to run up. go as fast as you can. first few will be fast, but on the 5th, 10th, 20th flight well you probably wont be going as fast as the first.

not to mention the gun would become so hot it would be hard to hold.

but really anyone can be taught to reload in a few seconds. with practice you can do it in one or two seconds. so arguments on limiting magazine size are quite silly as all you did was buy people some extra seconds. literally. seconds

do you really want to make felons out of people for the mere possession of magazines ? i guess some of you do. *shurg*
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