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  2. Opinion: Here’s the reason people tell me they want to buy an ...

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    I’ve sold guns at big box retailers and I’ve also sold firearms at a small retail gun store. Some gun buyers have been misled into thinking that the AR-15 is somehow practical for self-defense.

  3. Chicago customs seized 1,500 Glock switches to turn guns ...

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    CHICAGO (CBS) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday that its officers seized more than 1,500 devices to turn weapons fully automatic throughout last year. The agency said its ...

  4. What to know about switches, the device driving a rise in ...

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    Gun switches are dangerous because they turn semi-automatic weapons into automatic weapons. Federal authorities have said modified weapons can fire up to 20 bullets in one second.

  5. Automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    In fully automatic firearms, the cyclic rate is tailored to the purpose the firearm is intended to serve. Anti-aircraft machine guns often have extremely high rates of fire to maximize the probability of a hit. In infantry support weapons, these rates of fire are often much lower and in some cases, vary with the design of the particular firearm.

  6. Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia

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    The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...

  7. Colt Automatic Rifle - Wikipedia

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    The family name was derived from the original AR-15 by adding "Colt", resulting in the CAR-15, to stand for Colt Automatic Rifle, even though the "AR" in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle, the original manufacturer. [3] The CAR-15 weapons system consisted of the AR-15 and five variations, including the Colt Machine Gun and CAR-15 Heavy Assault ...

  8. Yes, ‘Glock Switches’ Can Turn a Firearm Into an Automatic Weapon

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    Under 26 U.S. Code § 5845(b), devices designed to allow for the automatic firing of weapons are themselves considered “machineguns,” which are unlawful to possess or transfer, with very few ...

  9. Automatic shotgun - Wikipedia

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    Daewoo USAS-12 automatic shotgun. An automatic shotgun is an automatic firearm that fires shotgun shells (thereby making it a shotgun) and uses some of the energy of each shot to automatically cycle the action and load a new round. [1] It will fire repeatedly until the trigger is released or ammunition runs out.