Which is More Deadly; An Automatic Weapon or A Fully Automatic Weapon?

[BigRed]

And I really want to know why?

I have yet to see an inanimate object that is deadly.

 

[Ingomike]

Automatic or fully automatic, same thing different name (unless fully automatic includes auto target and fire option).

No way!!! The media would not use precious headline space for the word fully if there was not a big scary difference...

 

[BR8818]

Gotta be the fully automatic ar16 with a barrel shroud and pistol grip that let's you shoot from the hip. Super deadly!!!

 

[IndyDave1776]

Gotta be the fully automatic ar16 with a barrel shroud and pistol grip that let's you shoot from the hip. Super deadly!!!

You forgot the shoulder thing that goes up!

 

[Mr. Habib]

Obviously fully automatic weapons are more deadly. They have the shoulder thingy that goes up.

 

[KG1]

Accessories are more deadly because they make them more accurate. Take away the accessories and they can't hit a damn thing. Problem solved.

 

[schmart]

And I really want to know why?

Automatic for sure!
In an industrial setting, automatic means something happens without manual intervention, so I would say an automatic weapon is more deadly than a fully automatic firearm. Think of the automatic Phalanx CIWS weapon on a ship! If you had an automatic weapon at home it would just shoot an intruder before you even got out of bed to investigate!
--Rick

 

[indyartisan]

Fully Automatic because it is much more automatic than automatic which fully makes it automatically more deadly.

 

[femurphy77]

Fully Automatic because it is much more automatic than automatic which fully makes it automatically more deadly automatically.

FIFY

 

[KLB]

Automatic for sure!
In an industrial setting, automatic means something happens without manual intervention, so I would say an automatic weapon is more deadly than a fully automatic firearm. Think of the automatic Phalanx CIWS weapon on a ship! If you had an automatic weapon at home it would just shoot an intruder before you even got out of bed to investigate!
--Rick

That is some solid logic.

 

[Pepi]

Tri-burst M4

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Depends on who's shooting it, and the circumstances it's being shot under...


A good gunner with a belt fed MG can absolutely lay waste to a beaten zone.

Then again, even a manually operated scoped bolt gun in the hands of a trained marksman/sniper can account for an enemy combatant with almost every single round.

IMHO, the best bet is a select fire rifle with both capabilities, (Semi, & Auto) and the training to handle each. You would seldom need, or use FA, as those duties would be best carried out by a belt fed weapon, but to not have it IS a limitation... One most of us must live with.

 

[printcraft]

Colored Black makes it even "more deadly"...don'cha know.... ;')

Oh no you didn't?!
You just wait until this post is seen by...






















Oh, nevermind.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Fun historical note: "Automatic" originally just referred to self loading, more literally self-readying from an internal ammunition source. The "A" in .45 ACP stands for "Automatic", as in Automatic Colt Pistol. This was to differentiate from repeating. "Repeating" meant it could be manually readied to fire again from an internal store (as in cocking a lever action cocks the hammer and presents a new cartridge until they are expended). "Semi-automatic" didn't enter the common lexicon for decades afterward, so calling a self loading pistol or rifle "automatic" isn't actually wrong as much as it's archaic.

 

[Ingomike]

Fun historical note: "Automatic" originally just referred to self loading, more literally self-readying from an internal ammunition source. The "A" in .45 ACP stands for "Automatic", as in Automatic Colt Pistol. This was to differentiate from repeating. "Repeating" meant it could be manually readied to fire again from an internal store (as in cocking a lever action cocks the hammer and presents a new cartridge until they are expended). "Semi-automatic" didn't enter the common lexicon for decades afterward, so calling a self loading pistol or rifle "automatic" isn't actually wrong as much as it's archaic.

I didn't really expect to learn something in this thread but there you have it.

 

[IndyBeerman]

Didn't read through the comments, they are equally as deadly, it's in the hands of the operator that makes it more deadly or not.

 

[Ingomike]

Didn't read through the comments, they are equally as deadly, it's in the hands of the operator that makes it more deadly or not.

If you had taken the time to read even a few comments you would have saved time posting in a thread that is for fun not serious.

 

[IndyBeerman]

If you had taken the time to read even a few comments you would have saved time posting in a thread that is for fun not serious.

Boy I don't know what got up your crawl, but if you're going to chastise me, do so to some of the others that replied to the same extent. or at least put it in purple.

 

[mbills2223]

Fun historical note: "Automatic" originally just referred to self loading, more literally self-readying from an internal ammunition source. The "A" in .45 ACP stands for "Automatic", as in Automatic Colt Pistol. This was to differentiate from repeating. "Repeating" meant it could be manually readied to fire again from an internal store (as in cocking a lever action cocks the hammer and presents a new cartridge until they are expended). "Semi-automatic" didn't enter the common lexicon for decades afterward, so calling a self loading pistol or rifle "automatic" isn't actually wrong as much as it's archaic.

I mean that is interesting but you also kind of Denny'd us there

 

[worddoer]

Poll Fail.....

Everyone knows its a Fully Semi Automatic.

I mean, everyone knows they are the deadliest with their ".30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. Thirty magazine clip in half a second" and their "Shoulder thing that goes up".

Evidence below..........