🚀 go-pugleaf

Somebody wrote:

> }What use do fully automatic firearms have, other than the obvious one of
> }killing a lot of things in very little time?
> 
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Gee, a lot of you people seem to be freaking out over my statement about 
allowing fully automatic firearms to trained people.

Allow me to expand on this.

I have never personally fired a full-auto firearm - but I sure would like 
to! I have been at the range when the army brought out a dozen full-auto 
sub-machine guns (for the life of me I can't remember the proper name of 
these things - Sten gun seems to stick in my mind, but I'm not sure that 
is correct).

Anyway, for about $35 ANYONE could fire these in competition. I didn't 
have the $35 at the time so all I could do was watch. When fired in 
single shot mode, people managed to hit the target pretty well.

When switched to full-auto - they barely hit the target at all! If you 
were to take 100 people at random you would probably only get one who 
could use a full-auto with any degree of accuracy.

You see that when a firearm is fired in full-auto mode it (depending on 
the individual firearm) climbs up and to the left. 

The army will generally train a soldier to fire in semi-auto mode as it 
is more accurate and wastes less ammo.

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