Reply #162: The nature of the mechanics of a fully-auto weapon

[AtheistCrusader]

make it an indiscriminate weapon. Muzzle rise, kick, etc. It's mode of fire MAKES it not a specifically aimed weapon. The distinction is blurred somewhat around SMG's, but for full machine guns, you are literally 'spraying'.


Any firearm can easily aid mass indiscriminate killing in some short finite period of time. Again, as VT illustrates, the function of how many people get killed has little to do with the capacity or cyclic rate of the firearm, and as studies have shown, is really a function of how long the shooter has before encountering armed opposition.