Are they trying to "hype" the situation and make it more dangerous and dramatic than it is. Are they trying to imply that it was a fully automatic handgun(like a machine gun?)
All pistols, automatics and revlovers are semi- automatic except for ancient civil war era handguns. Semi-automatic means every time you pull the trigger, one round goes off. Its does not mean when you pull the trigger and as long as you leave it depressed the weapon will continue to fire. That is "fully automatic". Semi- automatic is almost an oximoron. Every pistol, even a tiny twenty-two calibur revolver is "semi-automatic".
"The bad guys "opened up" with semi-automatic pistols", is a joke, and seems to be an attempt to over dramatize the situation.
2006-12-21
04:18:56
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