If it is not an automatic weapon, how does a shooter fire so many shots? The AR-15, like the Sig Sauer, requires that you pull the trigger to fire each cartridge. The M-16 is an automatic weapon: Hold the trigger and multiple rounds can be fired. The company sold the rights to the firearm to the Colt company which, in turn, modified the rifle and sold it to the military as the M-16. That is the company that first developed the weapon nearly 60 years ago. No, “AR” in the gun’s name stands for Armalite Rifle. Doesn’t “AR” stand for “automatic rifle”? The weapon used in some of those shootings was an AR-15. In the shootings in Orlando, New Town, Ct., and San Bernardino, semi-automatic weapons, one requiring you to pull the trigger each time to fire a cartridge, were the weapons used. A semi-automatic weapon (“assault weapon”) does not.Īutomatic weapons have not been used in recent mass shootings.
What’s the difference between a semi-automatic and an automatic weapon?Īn automatic weapon (“assault rifle”) can shoot more than one round when you pull the trigger. An AR-15 rifle, like one that has been used in some mass shootings, is an example of this type of weapon. What’s called an assault weapon (or sometimes an assault rifle) in reports on gun violence is a semi-automatic rifle that looks similar to the assault rifles used by the military.
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