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Originally Posted by SSJup81
IMO, that's the way it should be. No regular civilian should need to own automatic weapons and crap. I don't see why people feel this need to own guns period, but if they are going to own something, automatic assault weapons shouldn't be it. Wish the US could do something like that.
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Automatic weapons are already illegal in the US and have been for a very long time. Fully automatic means that you can hold down the trigger and it keeps firing.
Semi-automatic weapons are not illegal in the US. That means each time you pull the trigger, 1 bullet is fired. Semi-auto was an advancement over the older rifles that required you to manually chamber each round before it could be fired.
Assault rifles in the military usually have 3 settings available: full auto, burst fire (3 rounds are fired with each pull of the trigger), and semi-auto (just 1 bullet). When they are sold to the public, the mechanisms that allow anything besides semi-auto fire are removed.