Whining about gun minutiae

[NutmegYankee]

7. That's a throwback to the older definition of "automatic". The ad dates to 1966.

At one point, automatic meant any gun that automatically reloaded the next round into the chamber. Hence the older ads using the term "Automatic Pistol" to describe the classic Colt .45 1911.

In the last few decades, the term automatic has meant keep firing once the trigger is depressed versus the term semi-automatic for everything else.