The term Assault Weapon was created in the USA to describe the semi-automatic rifle of military design. And I hate to burst your bubble.

ANY WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF A MADMAN IS DEADLY. It coulbe be a tire iron or a nuclear device.

As for Semi-Auto versus full Full-Auto. It doesn't matter, I can hit the target just as well with a semi-auto or with a full-auto.

It comes down to the eight fundamentals of firearm shooting.

1 - Grip
2 - Sight Alingment
3 - Sight Picture
4 - Stance
5 - Trigger Control
6 - Focus
7 - Breathing
8 - Discipline

With those fundamentals you can control all wepaon systems.

I was aling about folks like you with a fellow officer during work last night. We noticed that there are some people in society that act as tough as can be. But when it comes to weapons they are as afriad as a little school girl with a rat.

Sigmund Freud said it best, "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

I do not understand why people are so afraid of a simple tool. It does not have a mind of it's own. It is just a machine with metal, wood, and plastic. It is not designed to kill, it is designed to be used by it's owner.

Firearms do not kill people, people kill people.

You nation of Austraili once allowed it's people to own firearms. But that right was taken away from you. If you take the time and get of you high horse and do the research you will notice that since your nation outlawed firearms that your crime rate skyrocketed.

An armed society is a polite society. Not everyone is peaceful, some are predators and will treat you like prey. Why disarm yourself? That is what you need to realize. Peace will never happen. PERIOD.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to the range to go shooting with my Semi-Automatic AK-47 and my friend's Fully Automatic Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machie Gun.

5.56x45mm
'Nuff Said...


PS - If you or anyone else ever tries to disarm me, you will only win by prying it from my cold dead blood covered hands. Why blood covered? Because I'll take some of you bastards with me before I die.

As for Semi-Auto versus full Full-Auto. It doesn't matter, I can hit the target just as well with a semi-auto or with a full-auto.

How many rounds are you letting go at full auto at one time?

Originally Posted by Wallabies

Lets just be glad then that none of those type of people exist.

Yes, the US is very lucky not to have any crazy people about.

Originally Posted by Wallabies

How many rounds are you letting go at full auto at one time?

Well, if it's a AR-15 or MP5. I can empty an entire magazine and be one target. If it is a G3 or FN FAL, I will usally fire a group of 3 to five rounds.

Muzzle climb and recoil play a big factor in controlling the weapon.

I take it that you have never shot a firearm or owned a firearm in your life. If you want to find out how safe firearms can be. Come on over to the USA. Go to a gun range and rent a firearm to shoot. Ask one of the range instructors to show you proper firearm safety and you will understand that firearms aren't the evil device that you make them appear to be.

Firearms are nothing but tools. Different tools for different jobs. You use a hammer to drive a nail into a plank of wood and you use a firearm to defend yourself and your family from evil.

"The taking of the enemy's life is not wrong, what is wrong is not being able to save the innocent's life." - John M. Browning. Most prolific firearm inventor.

What range are the targets at? I highly doubt you hit with 30 rounds unless it's a barn door. And I do fire rifles and MG's quite regularly.

I have qualified as an expert rifleman the last 4 times I have went to the rifle range. I have picked up an M-16A2 rifle to shoot only those 4 times in the past 4 years.

On Semi-Auto I can put 10 rounds on an "Able" target (18 inch circle) from 200 meters in less than 70 seconds from the prone position. This is with 5 rounds in one magazine and 5 rounds in another so it includes a clip change.

If you think that the same can not be done with a Semi-Auto Rifle w/scope that I can buy from any gun dealer you are sadly mistaken.

I am all for removing the ban if only for the reason that it encroaches on my right to bear arms. On the flip side I am a bit wary to see the ban removed because I see no real need for the average citizen to need an automatic weapon.

Rhodesy I'm talking about full automatic fire, not single shots, which 5.56 claims he can do. I've done doube taps with Assault rifles and sometimes it's who knows where the second round ends up, let alone 28 others.

Originally Posted by Young Winston

Yes, the US is very lucky not to have any crazy people about.

No. We have lots of them.

Thats part of why I own "assault weapons"

Originally Posted by Wallabies

Rhodesy I'm talking about full automatic fire, not single shots, which 5.56 claims he can do. I've done doube taps with Assault rifles and sometimes it's who knows where the second round ends up, let alone 28 others.

And you are in our Forces? What are you a paper shuffler.

I haven't fired an automatic weapon since the new laws came into effect, here's a photo off my last few fully auto shots, and you'll note that they are grouping at much less than 12 inches at 50metres.



I would suggest that perhaps you need to get some very serious time on the range if you can only manage the type of accuracy you are quoting.

That is not an assault rifle seno, no one is doubting that machine guns are used to be fired fully automatic while maintaining accuracy while mounted on a bipod or tripod.

And no mate, I'm not paper shuffler.