Not baseless Bub, you are correct in saying full auto would have the same advantages as a semi-auto, this is not what I was comparing. The reason I stated you want a semi-auto for self defense in the U.S.A., or a revolver, or single shot, is because that's an everyday carry weapon, that doesn't spit out 33 rounds in under 2 seconds with a single trigger pull. I was implying that carrying a full auto is a good way to end up in court, hence the suggestion to carry a semi automatic version of the same gun. Last time I checked, they didn't make a revolver or singleshot that resembles the function and capacity of a glock 18. As for a shotgun, last time I checked it's against OCDO rules to discuss longgun
carry.
I was saying not that the full auto has the same advantages as a semi-auto, but that it has the same advantages whether or not you are in a war.
In self defense, the purpose is to stop the attack as soon as possible, and if a full auto helps you do that, then it is all the more useful for self-defense.
I was implying that carrying a full auto is a good way to end up in court, hence the suggestion to carry a semi automatic version of the same gun.
I don't know the legal ramifications, and those may be worthy of consideration, but that was not the part of your post that I was addressing.
Referring to what you said previously that I was addressing:
The only time you need auto's is when your going on the offense and defense, like in a war-zone!
You state that full auto is only necessary in a war-zone. Although the sentence two prior to that one was about the legal ramifications, your statement in that sentence goes beyond merely whether it has negative legal ramifications, and you are effectively making an argument against full auto weapons by saying "Nobody needs one of them," with the sole exception of war-zones.
Some might argue that full auto was useless, because it spits the rounds out too fast... Well, if full auto is useless, why do they make guns that are full auto? Somewhere, somebody decided that full auto guns were useful in combat. The utility of a full auto firearm is not too much different depending on whether it is fired in war or not, especially not in the format of the Glock 18. Fully automatic fire is especially useful for the purposes of suppressive fire and for close quarters combat. The Glock 18 is designed for the latter as the duration of fire is very short with its small magazine. The Glock 18 is intended for close combat beyond just in wars, and in fact is especially marketed towards law enforcement.
The theory behind it is that you can rapidly fire the weapon at close range, striking a person multiple times in quick succession in order to take them out before they have time to inflict damage upon you. For the same reasons that a police officer would want full auto to take out somebody in close quarters rapidly, it would be useful for close quarters self defense.
And since the Glock 18 is select fire, one could utilize semi-auto mode if fully automatic fire was disadvantageous under the circumstances. With that in consideration, I do not see any disadvantage whatsoever in having a Glock 18 rather than a Glock 17.
As for a shotgun, last time I checked it's against OCDO rules to discuss longgun
carry. Since his question was about openly carrying a glock 18, and not using one to defend his home with, I'll just assume you were referring to carrying a shotgun in the open, in public, in your post, when you refer to 3" magnum Rounds.
Defeating strawmen is always easier than engaging in a debate about the topic at hand. You're also now implying that you think full automatic would be useful in home defense, whereas previously you implied that full auto is only good for a war zone. Perhaps that was not the implication you intended previously, but that was the implication I was addressing. A full size shoulder fired shotgun is also a much larger gun to carry than a handgun and therefore less easily carried than a Glock 18. But some people carry handguns like the Taurus judge, that can still fire 3-5 good sized buckshot pellets with a single touch of the trigger! That's like firing a burst from a full auto handgun.