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In reply to the discussion: Help me out with weapon terminology please [View all]brewens
(13,573 posts)rifles that can fire full auto. That hardly matters at all in most cases. They train military guys all over the world to usually use semi-auto anyway. The standard assault rifle of WWII was the M1, "the greatest battle implement ever devised" according to General Patton. It didn't have a full auto setting and it was definitely used in assaults.
I see it's had an effect though. Most in the media and politicians are now careful to say, "assault style weapon". That works well for if they have early breaking news on a shooter and aren't sure exactly what make and model the weapon is. They actually never know a guy didn't have a real select fire weapon, but that's never been the case so far as I know. It's always been what is usually a legal semi-auto version.