Local Nut-Job Planned to "kill as many people as possible" in shooting rampage

independence · Oct 2, 2013

KYGlockster said:
Some of what he "allegedly" said doesn't add up.

He said, "I planned on buying two AUTOMATIC handguns with SILENCERS..." This makes NO sense. As we all know he would never buy an AUTOMATIC handgun here, and it would take at least four to six months to get the stamps and other paperwork to obtain the "silencers."

In my experience, many people mean semiautomatic (not fully automatic) when they say automatic. The media is the worst offender with this but I've heard gun people do it, too.

MAC702 · Oct 2, 2013

independence said:
In my experience, many people mean semiautomatic (not fully automatic) when they say automatic. The media is the worst offender with this but I've heard gun people do it, too.

And it may not be too incorrect. A semiautomatic firing weapon is also known as an automatically loading weapon, or autoloader.

Grapeshot · Oct 2, 2013

MAC702 said:
And it may not be too incorrect. A semiautomatic firing weapon is also known as an automatically loading weapon, or autoloader.

Indeed, as in .45 ACP = Automatic Colt Pistol, auto loading pistol.

When I mean "automatic" fire, I say full auto or fully automatic.

Local Nut-Job Planned to "kill as many people as possible" in shooting rampage

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