Media said the gunman was armed with a semi-automatic rifle, similar to the popular AK-47, and several handguns. Suspect in Philadelphia police standoff taken into custody 1-1639 raises the legal age to buy any semi-automatic rifle to 21, from 18. Letting Unconstitutional Laws Languish He ...
New Law Makes Semiautomatic Rifles Legal for HuntingGov. Tom Wolf has signed into law a bill that permits the use of semiautomatic rifles and...Hayes, John
Related to semiautomatic:semiautomatic pistol sem·i·au·to·mat·ic orsem·i-au·to·mat·ic(sĕm′ē-ô′tə-măt′ĭk, sĕm′ī-) adj. 1.Partially automatic. 2.Ejecting a shell and loading the next round of ammunition automatically, but requiring a squeeze of the trigger ...
Although some journalists and proponents of banning “assault weapons” are quick topoint outthat U.S. soldiers are trained to fire their assault rifles in semiautomatic mode under most circumstances, the capability to switch to burst or fully automatic fire when extreme force is needed is the d...
This is similar to what the NVA did after Tet and what Iran did, but both grabbed literal boys, shoved rifles in their hands and sent them out to die. Which they did, in size. The war was over in that case both times, but not yet admitted. In the former case we literally walked...
As the guns became lighter, including those added to planes, forces on both sides also more regularly used the weapons in place of single-shot bolt action rifles [source: Duffy]. The first widely seen semi-automatic pistol, meanwhile, was created by John M. Browning in 1910 and originally ...
Judge: “I have been wrestling with this statute with, I’d hate to count the hours I’ve put into it, I’m still trying to figure out what it says, what’s prohibited. I have a legal education.” • Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful? (Turley) In covering ...
Similarly, in the Pew poll, Americans strongly backed restrictions on the type of weaponry Americans should be able to buy. Sixty-four percent favored banning magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition, and 63 percent favored banning assault weapons such as the military-style rifles th...
until World War I, however, when machine guns similar to those seen today came into regular use on the battlefield. As the guns became lighter, including those added to planes, forces on both sides also more regularly used the weapons in place of single-shot bolt action rifles [source:...
Which is why I welcomed Trump three years ago, and I welcome Ocasio, Tulsi Gabbard and Ilhan Omar today: something better change, because if things don’t change fast, we’re bound to see the 21st century American version of pitchforks; yes, that would be rifles and handguns. I hope ...