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    An automatic firearm or fully automatic firearm (to avoid confusion with semi-automatic firearms) is a self-loading firearm that continuously chambers...
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  • A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading...
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    "automatic". An automatic (or "fully automatic") firearm automatically re-cocks, reloads, and fires as long as the trigger is depressed. An automatic firearm...
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    In firearms terminology, an action is the functional mechanism of a breech-loading firearm that handles (loads, locks, fires, extracts, and ejects) the...
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    Firearms regulation in Switzerland allows the acquisition of semi-automatic, and – with a may-issue permit – fully automatic firearms, by Swiss citizens...
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  • practice their skills using their own semi-automatic rifles and pistols after military service. Legal firearms in Finland must be registered and licensed...
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    An automatic shotgun is an automatic firearm that fires shotgun shells (thereby making it a shotgun) and uses some of the energy of each shot to automatically...
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  • 2020 Automatic transmission, or a car with an automatic transmission Automatic Knives Automatic firearm Automatic variable Automatic watch Automatic (automobile...
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    marketing term used by the firearms industry to describe modular semi-automatic rifles including AR-15s. Today, nearly every major firearm manufacturer produces...
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    11×58mmR M/77), such as insufficient velocity and excessive fouling. Automatic firearms would only become feasible after smokeless powder became widespread...
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  • and shootings, such as handguns and other types of concealable firearms. Semi-automatic rifle designs which are derived from service rifles, sometimes...
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  • registration became law in 1934, and automatic firearms registration was added in 1951. In 1969, laws classified firearms as "non-restricted", "restricted"...
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  • the firearm by the learner to confirm the learner is abiding by the required Gun safety rules. Prohibited firearms are: any fully automatic firearm; cannon...
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    barrels, and automatic firearms, including machine guns. Older firearms typically used black powder as a propellant, but modern firearms use smokeless...
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  • The National Firearms Agreement (NFA), also sometimes called the National Agreement on Firearms, the National Firearms Agreement and Buyback Program,...
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  • A firearm malfunction is the failure of a firearm to operate as intended for causes other than user error. Malfunctions range from temporary and relatively...
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  • operated both automatically and manually, by hand); not fully-automatic." This may refer to: A semi-automatic firearm, a firearm which automatically loads the...
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    operates as a single-action striker-fired firearm.[citation needed]In contrast, a single-action (SA) semi-automatic pistol must be cocked by first operating...
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    a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition...
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    the Colt Monitor machine rifle, remains the lightest production automatic firearm chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge, though the limited...
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    semi-automatic firearms USAS 12 semi-automatic type shotgun Uzi type semi-automatic firearms Valmet M62, M71S, M76, or M78 type semi-automatic firearms Weaver...
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    A repeating firearm or repeater is any firearm (either a handgun or long gun) that is capable of being fired repeatedly before having to be manually reloaded...
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  • Automatic shotgun Personal defense weapon Semi-automatic firearm Martonik, Kurt (2023-06-19). "The Automatic Shotgun, or Autoloader, and How It Evolved". Free...
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    A squad automatic weapon (SAW), also known as a section automatic weapon or light support weapon (LSW), is a man-portable automatic firearm attached to...
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    their semi-automatic firearm look-alike counterparts—the semi-automatic version is specifically constructed to reject the fully automatic trigger group...
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  • shorter or deleted stock. Selective fire: A firearm that fires semi–automatically and at least one automatic mode by means of a selector depending on the...
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    selector with positions from safe to semi-automatic to full-automatic fire (e.g. M16 rifle). Some firearms manufactured after the late 1990s and early...
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    Assault weapon (category Firearms)
    applied to different kinds of firearms. There is no clear, consistent definition. It can include semi-automatic firearms with a detachable magazine, a...
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  • Military-style semi-automatic firearms in New Zealand are those semi-automatic firearms known in the United States as "assault weapons". The phrase is...
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    fireworks, bows and arrows, slingshots, spears, and nunchucks. Semi-automatic firearms that the state has classified as assault weapons, .50 BMG caliber...
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