What is Meant by a Semi-Automatic Rifle or Shotgun?
There are essentially seven methods of modern rifle mechanisms: bolt action, lever action, slide action, single shot breech action, falling block rifles and shotguns, semi-automatic and fully-automatic. A semi-automatic rifle or shotgun is one that requires a person to pull the trigger for each individual shot to be fired. A semi-automatic places a new round in the chamber by use of the expanding gasses of the previously fired round, but the person must still pull the trigger (again) for this round to be discharged. The semi-automatic action is merely a convenience to the shooter and has no effect on the caliber of the cartridge, the gun’s power, or its accuracy. Here are some common examples of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns: All civilian production of Browning, Colt, Remington, and Ruger rifles except bolt-actions; U.S. surplus rifles including M1, M1 Carbine, GR43, AK47, FN49, Haekame, Rashid and SKS; all Browning, Remington, Mossberg and Winchester shotguns except slide action,
