Reply #109: In the hands of an untrained person, full auto is safer for the people he is shooting at.

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I know it sounds strange, but it is true. It takes training to learn to handle a gun on full-auto. The successive recoils of each shot cause the gun to tend to ride up rather strongly. The fourth and subsequent shots usually hit nothing but clouds. Further, untrained shooters tend to hold the trigger down, instead of firing in bursts, which means they have an empty magazine in about two seconds, or less. Full auto handguns are next to impossible to control.

With semi-auto the person has time to recover from the recoil and aim the next shot. That is far more deadly.

In the hands of a shooter with training, full-auto is devastating.