Gun Control

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45. Exactly what advantage does a fully automatic weapon offer to your average criminal?

In this nation such weapons are rare, hard to get and extremely expensive.

They are a lot of fun to shoot but unless you fire two or three round busts they are difficult to control with any reasonable degree of accuracy. Fully automatic weapons also burn up a lot of ammo and ammo ain't cheap. A full auto weapon is an excellent way to turm money into noise.

A terrorist might use one in a crowd but for your average street criminal or member of a drug gang involved in turf warfare, a revolver or a semiautomatic weapon will work just fine. A semi auto weapon is also cheaper and if you want to throw it in a river after the crime, you are not out much.

I'm not a criminal so I use firearms for target shooting and self defense. I can't think of one advantage a fully automatic weapon could offer me over a semiautomatic except as a long term investment. Perhaps if an angry crowd were to attack me, I could empty a 30 round magazine to cause them to duck and take cover. The chances of that ever happening are about the same as my winning the lotto this week if I don't buy a ticket.