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Originally posted by baremuffin
I hate to invade, but I've been lurking, and I'm curious.
I catch some of those 'History of the Gun' or whatever shows on History Channel every now and then, but I'm not 'up' on my weaponry.
Do most people misidentify assault-rifles (per the definitions show in this thread) as machine guns? I kind of thought that any rifle that was fully automatic was a machine gun... if that's not the case, what defines a machine gun vs a fully automatic assault rifle?
Not that I simply MUST know, but I'm bored and this debate sort of caught my attention...
Ballistically illiterate,
Michelle
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baremuffin when I was in the Army... I was taught.... a semi-automatic was ( you have to pull the trigger every time) an
auto-matic was ( you pull the trigger and as long as you hold it it keeps firing) ( granted most people think this
would be a machine gun) but it is not a machine gun.... It's a simi-auto-matic or auto-matic.
Don't know for sure but an AK47 has a clip of 30 rounds.
A machine is is well a machine gun... and does not have a clip.... but belts of rounds.... could be 100's or 1,000's of
rounds. and it's one continuos belt... back in the old days... machine guns were water cooled..... now days most are air
cooled....
Gatling Guns on Fighter are machine guns.... but they fire so fast
they have to fire them in short spurts... or they will melt the barrels....
Am sure pathfinder can explane this better to you.... As I was in an Airborne unit and he was also.... I think he, as he spent like 30 years in the miltary and was very serious about his time spent.... I was more of a show me were the beer and pussy is....
I bet I had more fun.....
