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Show No Sport Guns Truly 'Automatic,' Says Expert The term "automatic shotgun," so commonly used by hundreds of thousands of sportsmen, is a misnomer, mis-nomer, according to a Remington Arms company authority. "There are no full automatic sporting arms," he said. "This applies ap-plies not only to shotguns but to rifles and pistols as well. The only full automatic firearm is the machine ma-chine gun. When the trigger is pulled and held back the machine gun will continue to fire until the trigger is released. "The machine gun is usually supplied sup-plied with a lever or adjusting device de-vice which shifts the mechanism from complete automatic to semiautomatic, semi-automatic, which requires a pull of the trigger for each shot. When the gun is on full automatic, short bursts of fire can be secured by holding the trigger back for a very short time and then releasing it. Due to the extreme speed of its action, about the shortest burst one can secure from a full automatic auto-matic machine gun is five shots. This, however, is dependent upon the reaction of the shooter and the sensitiveness of his trigger-finger. "The guns so frequently referred to by sportsmen as 'automatic' are really 'auto-loaders.' This same term is applicable to so-called 'automatic' rifles and pistols as well as shotguns. In this type of gun the trigger must be pulled for each shot and, therefore, the gun is under the complete control of the shooter at all times. "Three types of action are em-I em-I ployed in the manufacture of these ! auto-loading guns. These are known ! as the 'recoil - operated,' 'gas-operated' 'gas-operated' and 'blow - back - operated.' oper-ated.' The U. S. army's famous Gar-ana Gar-ana rifle works on. the gas-operated principle." |