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It seems like "shooter is killed in action" is already covered by "the trigger is released" Barndoorsentry (talk) 18:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
The patent linked on the bottom of the page is, although having the title "Automatic gun", in fact a patent of a cooling system for automatic guns. Igram oxyd (talk) 21:15, 19 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
From the article "Automatic weapons tend to be restricted (...), due to their mistakenly supposed potential to kill many people quickly" - this seems an odd use of words - the article is about guns not people's suppositions. Changing article to remove the words after the comma (great article though!).
Since "automatic firearm" can mean many things depending on context (of "automatic pistol", "automatic shotgun" and "automatic rifle", only one implies full auto), and since the content here is almost entirely redundant with other articles, I'm going to change it to a discussion of meaning and a set of links, so people can chose the appropriate meaning and find the right article. scot 18:19, 23 January 2006 (UTC)Reply
So how exactly will the slaughter of elephants effect the nature of automatic firearms, to the extent that the article on automatic firearms will change? Just because an assault rifle or machinegun was used to kill elephants (and this isn't a new thing, it's been going on for decades) doesn't mean that it was intended for such use, or even that it's particularly well suited to the task, and I don't forsee anyone starting to market, say, an automatic rifle in .600 Nitro for specifically for elephant hunting. Elephant ivory is used for piano keys, do you think it's justified to tag the piano article as being subject to short-term change because someone is poaching elephants in Africa? I think the burden is on you to propose a causatave link from elephant poaching to changes in the automatic firearm article before you are justified in tagging it. scot 20:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)Reply
> on April 21, 2008, Governor Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill allowing the sale and possession of NFA weapons in Kansas. The law took effect on July 1, 2008. <
Because of the US federal government's supreme powers manifest in the 1934 and 1986 laws, any state regulation to lax full-auto rifle ownership is just empty boast. The BATF agents will go and forcibly collect any autofire weapon, regardless of what Ms. Kathleen declares. The WACO incident has conclusively shown that Washington has power to act against non-govt full-auto weapon posession, using military force of battle tanks if necessary. 91.83.3.66 (talk) 19:55, 1 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
This article clearly duplicates information from the Firearm and Firearm action articles without adding any unique information. I recommend merging the content changing this article to a redirect. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 16:06, 18 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
The seperate firearm action articles need to stay seperate PerkinsC (talk) 18:04, 16 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
The classification of pistols in this article seems confusing, especially considering we also have an article Semi-automatic pistol.
The use of the singular term "automatic" is misleading and incomplete with regard to firearms. The correct term is Fully Automatic Action.Digitallymade (talk) 11:25, 3 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
A couple of points. First, this article is about the type of weapon, not the term. Second, bold text is normally used only for the article title when it first appears in the text, along with alternate titles which redirect to this article. Third, this isn't the US Wikipedia, so discussions of US-centric issues should be kept to a minimum in the intro. Lastly, the intro should reflect and summarize the article. It shouldn't discuss issues that are never mentioned in the article body. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. Felsic2 (talk) 18:27, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
In the introduction, automatic weapon is defined as: "An automatic firearm is a firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharge to feed a new ammunition round into the chamber, and then ignite the propellant and discharge the projectile (either bullet, shots or slug) by delivering a hammer/striker impact on the primer." This is actually the definition of a "Fully Automatic" weapon. Later in the introduction, however, it is stated that "...all semi-automatic, burst-fire and fully automatic firearms are "automatic" in the technical sense...". However, semi-automatic falls outside the definition given in the first sentence since it does not continuously chamber and fire rounds, nor does it use energy released from the previous discharge to "ignite the propellant and discharge the projectile". I would suggest the first two sentences of the intro be replaced with:
An automatic firearm is a firearm that is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharge to feed a new ammunition round into the chamber and reset the hammer/striker. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Southwestern Giant (talk • contribs) 17:40, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
AutomaticorFull Automatic will fire and reload for as long as the trigger is depressed and there is ammunition . Burst Automatic will execute a predetermined number of fire and reload cycles after the trigger is feathered or depressed as long as there is sufficient ammunition . Semi-automatic is self loading and will only fire once and reload per trigger action as long as there is ammunition when the trigger is pulled . Does any one have a difference between Semi-automatic and Semiautomatic?PerkinsC (talk) 18:02, 16 May 2021 (UTC)Reply