[Vermont Lt]

I would be careful about using the term “automatic” rifle.

99% probably that the shooter used a semi-automatic (1 pull, 1 shot.) “Automatic” weapons are not easily gotten by the average person.

[rktman]

To the vaunted urinalists, if you don’t have to manually load each cartridge, it’s an automatic.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

And no one could even guess at the number of shots if it were a machine gun.