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A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that fires a single round each time the trigger is pulled, and uses some of the energy from that firing to load the next round. Semi-automatic rifles are also known as self-loading rifles ('SLR') or auto-loading rifles.
Semi-automatic rifle 295,840 Chauchat: Light machine gun 262,000 Heckler & Koch G36: Assault rifle
Semi-automatic rifle United States 1973–present Saw limited usage by police and military units as the fully-automatic AC556. Smith & Wesson M&P15: Semi-automatic rifle United States 2006–present Kel-Tec SU-16: Semi-automatic rifle United States 2000s-present Designed for the civilian market. XM214 Microgun: Rotary-barrel machine gun United ...
The Colt AR-15, a type of semi-automatic rifle. A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm (fully automatic and selective fire firearms are also variations on self-loading firearms), is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to ...
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Most of the M1A rifles manufactured since 1971 were made for the commercial market and thus were only capable of semi-automatic fire. Springfield Armory, Inc. and Smith Enterprise Inc. were the two companies that produced select fire M14-type rifles for civilian ownership. Up until May 1986, Springfield Armory, Inc. had a Full Auto Department ...
Two variants of the CQ rifle were made: the CQ 5.56, also known as the CQ-311 or CQ M-311, the select-fire variant for Military/LE sales; and the CQ M311-1, the semiautomatic version for the civilian market. Later, a carbine variant was introduced, called the CQ 5.56mm Type A. The semi-auto sport rifle has been successful in the civilian market.
2nd Lt. Val Browning with the Browning Automatic Rifle in France during World War I. An automatic rifle is a type of autoloading rifle that is capable of fully automatic fire. Automatic rifles are generally select-fire weapons capable of firing in semi-automatic and automatic firing modes (some automatic rifles are capable of burst-fire as well).