Definitions for automatic firearm
au·to·matic firearm

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. automatic firearm, automatic gun, automatic weaponnoun

   a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Automatic firearm

   An automatic firearm is an auto-loading firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess energy released from a previous discharge to feed a new ammunition round into the chamber, and then ignite the propellant and discharge the projectile (either bullet, shot, or slug) by delivering a hammer or striker impact on the primer. If both the feeding and ignition procedures are automatically cycled, the weapon will be considered "fully automatic" and will fire continuously as long as the trigger is kept depressed and the ammunition feeding (either from a magazine or a belt) remains available. In contrast, a firearm is considered "semi-automatic" if it only automatically cycles to chamber new rounds (i.e. self-loading) but does not automatically fire off the shot unless the user manually resets (usually by releasing) and re-actuates the trigger, so only one round gets discharged with each individual trigger-pull. A burst-fire firearm is an "in-between" of fully and semi-automatic firearms, firing a brief continuous "burst" of multiple rounds with each trigger-pull, but then will require a manual re-actuation of the trigger to fire another burst. Automatic firearms are further defined by the type of cycling principles used, such as recoil operation, blowback, blow-forward or gas operation.

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1. automatic firearm

   An automatic firearm is a type of firearm that continuously fires rounds as long as the trigger is pressed or held and there are still rounds left in the magazine or belt. The action of loading and firing in these firearms happens automatically, powered by the energy of each shot. They include a variety of guns such as automatic rifles, machine guns, and automatic pistols.

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1. Automatic firearm

   An automatic firearm is any firearm that will continue to fire so long as the trigger is pressed and held and there is ammunition in the magazine/chamber. While both "semi automatic" and "fully automatic" weapons are "automatic" in technical sense that the firearm automatically cycles between rounds with each trigger pull, under conventional usage a merely semi-automatic firearm is not correctly referred to an "automatic weapon" or an "automatic firearm". The terms "automatic weapon" and "automatic firearm" are conventionally reserved to describe fully automatic firearms. Confusion can be avoided by this convention. A semi-automatic firearm fires one round with each individual trigger pull, while a fully automatic continuously fires rounds whilst the trigger is pressed and held. The speed of fully automatic firearms is measured in rounds per minute or rounds per second, in what is called the Rate of fire. The speed of fully automatic firearms is compared to each other this way.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of automatic firearm in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of automatic firearm in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of automatic firearm in a Sentence

1. Jonathan Sinn:

   Shawn was up there playing basketball with his brother and his cousin, he is 5-foot-5, 130 pounds, and it was just the three of them on the court playing when a car-load of kids, a car-load of teenagers … pulled into the lot. At that point they opened their windows and opened fire with, what at the time seemed to be a fully automatic firearm.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=automatic firearm
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Firearm
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=automatic firearm