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Originally Posted by Fedaykin
"Automatic" is used frequently both by the general public and enthusiast folks to refer to both semi and fully-automatic weapons. Both are indeed 'automatic' weapons (aka self-loading). Typically the vernacular for fully automatic is "machine gun". The term machine gun is also what the ATF uses to classify fully automatic weapons.
The National Automatic Pistol Collectors Association:
http://www.napca.net/
Automatic Pistols for Sale:
http://www.gunsamerica.com/Search/Ca...ic-Pistols.htm
Rugar Automatic Pistols for Sale:
http://www.gunsinternational.com/Rug....cfm?cat_id=95
Even the names of various loads/guns refer to semi-automatic weapons as simply "automatic" or "auto", such as the .45 ACP (the round designed for use in the original M1911), which stands for .45 Automatic Colt Pistol.
"The M1911 is still carried by some U.S. forces. Its formal designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original Model of 1911 or Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911A1 for the M1911A1, adopted in 1924. The designation changed to Pistol, Caliber .45, Automatic, M1911A1 in the Vietnam era." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1911_pistol
Welcome to human language use and all its associated vagaries. Get over yourselves. |
So what's funny here is the paleocons (I like that term, btw) here in this thread have two choices:
They believed that we didn't know the difference between semi-automatic and fully-automatic and were just trying to slip an argument by hoping we wouldn't catch it
OR...
They don't know the difference semi-automatic and fully-automatic, and thought the First Lady's edited speech was evidence of a vast conspiracy
Which is it, chumpstains?
