A "high firepower weapons ban"

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95. So let's assume that 3 people break into my home. I can only shoot one shot every five seconds ...

I miss with my first shot or it doesn't stop the first attacker. The three guys swarm me and take my gun away. They then shoot me 9 times waiting 5 seconds between each shot.

I should also point out that I can aim and place 5 shots in the black of a 25 yard bullseye pistol target in five seconds especially when using a .22 caliber target pistol which has a low level of recoil. The black center circle (the nine and ten rings) of that target has a diameter of 5.5 inches. At 21 feet I can hit the black of that target 5 times in under 2 seconds without any difficulty and possibly in less than 1 second. For those interested I usually use a Ruger Great Eight target pistol which was a special run of the normal Ruger target pistol made for an outside vendor. At 21 feet I can place all five shots of my S&W .38 caliber snub nosed revolver in the much larger 9 and ten rings of a standard sillouette target in less than 2 seconds. (I should point out that shooting at paper targets that are not shooting back is far easier than shooting at an armed individual who is moving and returning fire.)

I should point out that I am not bragging as many other experienced shooters can hit the target more accurately as fast or faster than I can. I remember one instance when a concealed weapons instructor was teaching a class of students on the range and walked out to the lobby to tell the range master that another shooter was using a fully automatic pistol on the range. He was wrong. The guy was just one very skilled shooter in his early 20s who was attending college while working for the police department. His speed and skill while shooting a semi auto pistol makes me look like an amateur and I have 40 years experience with shooting handguns. A competitive shooter named Jerry Miculek has fired 6 shots from a revolver, reloaded it and fired six more shots in 2.99 seconds. You can read about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Miculek or watch videos of him shooting on YouTube.

I have no idea of how you would engineer a semi-auto pistol or revolver and limit the rate of fire. I imagine it would be a challenge and no manufacturer would have any interest in making one as there would be absolutely no market.