Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

Originally Posted by Hirlau

First of all, I don't use Wikipedia as a source for any of my information gathering.

If you are going to push the above "cut & paste" as the definitive source for the meaning of the words "automatic & semi automatic", in their relationship to weapon function; then please give me the name of the individual who "up loaded" this to Wikipedia, so I can review his qualifications.

This is only fair, is it not?

I mentioned it because I found it interesting, since I'd always assumed that auto/semi-auto referred to the firing, not the loading. Feel free to disagree with Wikipedia, and to explain why, or not. I'm not personally invested in it in the slightest.

Originally Posted by northpaw

I mentioned it because I found it interesting, since I'd always assumed that auto/semi-auto referred to the firing, not the loading. Feel free to disagree with Wikipedia, and to explain why, or not. I'm not personally invested in it in the slightest.

I understand. I just have seen too many errors on Wiki over the years that it has been online. If something is important for me to learn about , I first study the teacher. I don't know much about anything in life, but what little I do know, came from great teachers.