re: #275 Pietr

Wiki is subject to peeps changing reality. Try the dictionary, or even Jane’s…..an AUTO weapon fires continually while triggered, a semi auto weapon is 1 shot per trigger pull. The M16 has a semi, 3 shot, and auto select lever-most MSM posts/articles about AUTO WEAPONS being used really are discussing an automatic pistol/rifle which is actually a SEMI-AUTOMATIC, and LEGAL….but then when a cop shoots a bad guy it’s listed by the MFM as part of the stats on gun violence, and why guns MUST be banned…..:>((

I know. That is my position too… I hate people calling the AR-15 (civilian version of m-16) an automatic rifle… its semi-automatic, but I understand what lobois saying, if it fires more than one round for each squeeze of the trigger its auto.
The definition I had learned was if you can empty the mag with one trigger pull and holding it down, then its auto… if you cant then its not. But I will stand down on this one Lobo seems to be right.