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  2. 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 ...

  3. Semi-automatic rifle - Wikipedia

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    Semi-automatic fire greatly assists in maintaining one's sight picture, which is especially important when follow-up shots are required. [47] Due to their demand, the manufacturers of semi-automatic firearms have greatly increased the effective firing distance of their products compared to the first semi-automatics sold on the civilian market. [48]

  4. Semi-automatic pistol - Wikipedia

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    A Glock 22 semi-automatic pistol chambered in .40 S&W with a tactical light mounted below its barrel.. A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol [1]) is a repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridges in its chamber after every shot fired, but only one round of ammunition is fired each time the trigger is pulled.

  5. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    Semi-automatic pistol: A pistol that has a single chamber, and is capable of semi-automatic fire. Semi-wadcutter (SWC) : A type of all-purpose bullet commonly used in revolvers that combines features of the wadcutter target bullet and traditional round nosed revolver bullets, and is used in both revolver and pistol cartridges for hunting ...

  6. House passes semiautomatic gun ban after 18-year lapse - AOL

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    The House passed legislation Friday to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in the crush of mass shootings ...

  7. List of semi-automatic rifles - Wikipedia

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    A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that fires a single round each time the trigger is pulled, and uses some of the energy from that firing to load the next round. Semi-automatic rifles are also known as self-loading rifles ('SLR') or auto-loading rifles .

  8. Biden signs executive order aimed at school shooting drills ...

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    The order's other main objective is to address machine gun conversion devices. "These machine gun conversion devices, which you can install on an ordinary semi-automatic firearm, turn it into a ...

  9. Semiautomatic firearm ban passes Colorado's House, heads to ...

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    Colorado's Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was ...