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To: USMCPOP

What is this obsession with “full automatic” weapons?

Very few people can hit anything while firing full auto, unless the target is close. You mainly are just throwing lead downrange to get the enemy to keep his head down.

Anyone ever hear of “hold ‘em & squeeze ‘em”?

If you are trying to hit your target, full auto is about as useful as the TV/Movie gangbangers holding their pistols horizontally.


25 posted on 12/31/2012 11:58:51 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: BwanaNdege

I don’t get it either. Their cultural tendency to spray and pray is a main reason US and Israeli troops generally win a firefight with Arabs.

As I understand it, one can quite easily run thru a 30 round magazine on semi-auto in less than half a minute. How much faster do you need?


26 posted on 12/31/2012 12:03:34 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: BwanaNdege
Yeah, 2-shot burst is more effective. Now as for shooting sideways, you have to have the right sights.


51 posted on 01/01/2013 5:21:59 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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