“A double-action revolver is pretty darn close to being “semi-automatic”.
One shot per trigger pull.
Well, yeah, but I thought semi-auto means autoloader.
The 1860 Starr revolver was a double action cap-and-ball revolver; a repeater which fires one shot per trigger pull.
Is it semi-auto?
Anyway, Piers needs to put some teeth in his belief. Maybe crash a gun show here & knock over some tables. Flapping his gums at us Yanks isn’t going to result in new gun laws.
Britain is a crapped out nation. Done for. So they want us to be like them. Not bloody likely, mate.