Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

In light of another massacre in the us, what your opinion on the right to bear automatic weapons like the ak47 and ar15?

Well, in reference to the shooting the man did not have automatic weapons-a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun. Having said that I do not see why anyone would need fully auto weapons. Well, I guess just to have them.

If I were king, I'd probably restrict gun ownership to shotguns for home defense and bolt-action rifles for hunting. Not gonna happen any time soon, though.

EDIT: I was going to say the same as the above poster about the terminology, but Wikipedia does say that "automatic" can also refer to semi-autos. Live and learn.

Originally Posted by Mephisto

Well, in reference to the shooting the man did not have automatic weapons-a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun. Having said that I do not see why anyone would need fully auto weapons. Well, I guess just to have them.

Ok i was thinking an AR15 was an automatic weapon...

Originally Posted by Martin103

Ok i was thinking an AR15 was an automatic weapon...

That just means that the media has done a successful job with you.

Originally Posted by HarleyFXST

That just means that the media has done a successful job with you.

Not at all,they just mention he had an AR15, it just means that i know nothing about guns.

Talk about a fiery thread,,,

Unless the investigators found altered weapons, the shooter had a semi-automatic long gun/rifle.
I have no problem with AR-15's or semi automatic clones of the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 (AK-47).

Originally Posted by Martin103

Ok i was thinking an AR15 was an automatic weapon...

It is a semi auto. If you have a government stamp and maybe $30,000 dollars you can legally own one with a selector switch to go selective fire or full auto. I was thinking of the Palestinian a few years ago, in Israel. He didn't have a gun at all. Only a huge front end loader which he used to crush cars and run over pedestrians until the LEOs finally shot him dead.

Serial killer BTK (bind, torture, kill) caught after thirty years or so of being on the loose. He never used a firearm in any of his gruesome murders. Neither did Richard Speck or Theodore Bundy. When a crazy man wants to do bodily harm they will find a way. The killer of those poor folks in that theater should have been killed on the spot by the LEOs who caught him.

Automatic means you pull and hold the trigger and bullets keep coming out until you release the trigger.

Semi-automatic rifles and handguns are fine. As are fully automatic rifles. I have a couple friends with M16s or pre-ban auto sears. They're fun to shoot once or twice but goodness the ammo cost is more than I can afford (not to mention 12+k for one gun) .

I just wish that firearm safety and proficiency classes were more available and less expensive.

And that people would realize an object is only as bad as the person using it. A hammer isn't inherently bad. A nail gun isn't inherently bad. But they both get used for bad things from time to time.

Originally Posted by northpaw

If I were king, I'd probably restrict gun ownership to shotguns for home defense and bolt-action rifles for hunting. Not gonna happen any time soon, though.

EDIT: I was going to say the same as the above poster about the terminology, but Wikipedia does say that "automatic" can also refer to semi-autos. Live and learn.

.........and Wikipedia is wrong, as it often is.