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[edit] Cons of Semi-automatic fire

Any drawbacks to it?70.231.229.31 02:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well semiautomatic weapons arent perfect! Fullauto weapons arent either. Selective fire weapons combine the best of both worlds. Semiautomatics cannot really spray an area with bullets, as is the common misconception. The real benifit of semiautomatic fire is followup shots on a single target(those quick follup shots are what save your life when you need to protect yourself, because you cant count on being accurate when your scared). Spraying an area is more of a full auto thing. As far as drawbacks are concerned the most highend accurate rifles are almost always bolt action, the only acception to this being extremely high end products like the PSG1, MSG90 or SIG550 sniper variant, however these guns are extremely expensive(like the PSG1 is 10,000 dollars.) Some Special police units use slide(pump)action shotguns because you can use a variety of ammunition without having to wory about a light load failing to cycle the action.

[edit] Ambiguity

The term "automatic pistol" almost exclusively refers to a semi-automatic (i.e. not fully automatic) pistol. With handguns, the term "automatic" is commonly used to distinguish semi-automatic pistols from revolvers.

Double action revolvers are semi-automatic. They chamber-then-fire as a result of a single pull. This can only be contrasted with "handgun" semi-automatic in that such weapons generally fire-then-chamber. It is no less automatic, though. --76.209.50.222 01:22, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

No, I don't think you can say DA revolvers are semi-automatic. In DA revolvers, the cylinder is rotated by the trigger pull, not by recoil or gas operation, which is what semi-automatic or automatic refers to. This action does not chamber a round, as the cartridges are already loaded into the cylinder. A true automatic revolver, however, was the Webley-Fosbery_Automatic_Revolver from ca. 1901, and there is also the more recent Mateba_Autorevolver, but these are relative oddities. Twalls 21:21, 19 May 2007 (UTC)