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Every rifle is semiautomatic

• betterunix2 6y ago
  Not true, here is one of many counterexamples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_700 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington_Model_700
• seneca 6y ago
  > Every rifle is semiautomatic This is just incorrect. Bolt action and muzzleloaded rifles are both extremely common and not semiautomatic. That being said, "semiautomatic" is usually a useless scare-word thrown in by people who have no clue what they're talking about.
  • leesalminen 6y ago
    My mother believed for the majority of her adult life that “semi-automatic” meant “fully automatic”, as in “squeeze once, all the bullets come out”. It’s incredible that people with little to no knowledge of the mechanics of guns want to regulate exactly that.
    • seneca 6y ago
      Indeed, and that's exactly why it is used that way. It's an intentional weasle-word used by gun control advocates to scare observers.
  • grimjack00 6y ago
    The current scare-term is "fully semi-automatic".