Consulting the hive mind at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Cuda wrote:I know when I was in the Army not so far in the past, most of the carry options were not fully auto. In fact the AR (Automatic Rifle, I think this is where the news assumes AR stands for assault rifle gets confused) was not fully auto but the selector was 1 round or 3 round burst. 3 rounds is far from full auto to me. Now when touching of an M60 and in your head saying 5 to 9 is just fine was more of a full auto to me.
"AR-15 (for Armalite model 15, often mistaken for Automatic Rifle or Assault Rifle) is the common name for the widely-owned[9] semi-automatic rifle patterned after the fully automatic M16 and M4 carbine assault rifle, which are currently in use by the United States military."
Fully agree with that! :-)Cuda wrote: But then again Hollywood hasn't done much realistic research on weapons since Vietnam i.e semi-auto pistols that still click with every trigger pull. I think Hollywood is part of our assault weapon problem too.