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Originally Posted by samurai007
Automatic weapons are already illegal in the US and have been for a very long time. Fully automatic means that you can hold down the trigger and it keeps firing.
Semi-automatic weapons are not illegal in the US. That means each time you pull the trigger, 1 bullet is fired. Semi-auto was an advancement over the older rifles that required you to manually chamber each round before it could be fired.
Assault rifles in the military usually have 3 settings available: full auto, burst fire (3 rounds are fired with each pull of the trigger), and semi-auto (just 1 bullet). When they are sold to the public, the mechanisms that allow anything besides semi-auto fire are removed.
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While that is true, it is easy to convert your semi auto rifle into a fully automatic rifle with a kit than can be bought quite easily and is legal to buy in the united states.
It is a messed up law like the "drug paraphernalia" law, You buy it ofr a different purpose but it is actually used in an illegal fashion.