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In reply to the discussion: Semi automatic military style guns are not assault rifles... [View all]yurbud
(39,405 posts)11. your caveat is a sad irony: if more of those guys talked, there would be fewer wars
I teach college and have had many vets in class over the years, and only two ever talked openly about killing, and they were both in the same class talking to each other in front of the whole class.
I think it was because both were still almost teenagers that they didn't have that reserve you see in older guys.
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Excellent Post. Let's not forget that even in Semi-Auto mode they are still an assault weapon.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#2
That's backwards. Once the string makes it full auto, it's no longer an assault weapon
Recursion
Dec 2012
#29
That is a machine gun and I hope someone has referred this video to the BATFE.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#3
Beginning with the M16A2 (issues in the 90's for the first time), there is no full auto on the M16.
ET Awful
Dec 2012
#30
all guns are assault weapons - "In law, assault is a crime that involves causing a victim
msongs
Dec 2012
#4
your caveat is a sad irony: if more of those guys talked, there would be fewer wars
yurbud
Dec 2012
#11