Semi-automatic firearm

Many people think we need gun control and more gun laws. According to the second amendment it is our right, to keep and bear arms. There is a large number of guns in the United States. There is an idea that the government wants to take our guns away completely. Would that even work? Will gun laws and restrictions help keep gun violence, shootings, robbery, and threats from happening? Can President Obama really change the gun laws or take away our guns with the second amendment? Why do people…

AR-15 and Attachments The myth, the legend, the weapon. The AR-15 is a style of semi-automatic/automatic rifle that is used in civilian and military applications. The first design was actually named the AR-10 and was submitted to replace the M1 Garand but, lack of time and testing before military trials didn’t allow it to be adopted as the new military rifle. In 1956 the time was right for a new smaller caliber rifle and the AR-15 was designed and built by Armalite. Three years later the…

In August 1987, a single gunman armed with two legally owned semi-automatic weapons and a handgun went on a six hour shooting spree, killing sixteen people and then himself. This caused the United Kingdom to expand their list of banned weapons, including some semi-automatic weapons. In 1996, a middle-aged man used four handguns to kill sixteen school children and one adult. This mass-shooting brought on even stricter…

without taking away the legal rights of law abiding citizens to acquire and possess firearms. How this problem can be compromised will be discussed throughout this essay . Over the years, gun violence has been a global problem which has been steadily increasing in the united states. In the United States, there are 300 million people. Of those 300 million people 30,000 people lives will be taken from the barrel of a firearm every year. In the United States, their Citizens have the rights to…

There are a massive number of semi-automatic weapons in the hands of criminals and citizens, which create a threat to national and law enforcement authority, and many deceptive practices. Some of these weapons are very similar to military weapons. Countries like united states are in a dangerous situation unless the government takes an action to ban them. If we get rid of these semi-automated weapons crime rates would go down a lot. To start with, semi-automatic weapon owners engaging in…

Around 16,459 people were murdered in 2016, and roughly 73% were killed using a firearm of some kind. If there were stricter laws around firearms (noun) it is likely that most of these deaths could have been prevented. However there are many arguments against these beliefs from needing a firearm for self defense and hunting, or saying that innocent people should not be punished for the actions of others, and even if gun laws change it is only going to affect law abiding citizens. It is…

of rifles, bolt action rifles and semi-automatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles use gas, blow forward, blowback, or recoil energy to eject the cartridge after the round traveled down the barrel, automatically takes a new cartridge from the magazine, and resets the operation This lets another round to be fired once the trigger is squeezed again. The other type of rifle was the bolt-action rifle, where you have to operate the bolt manually.. Most bolt-action firearms are operated by an inner…

prevalence of mass shootings has added fuel to the flames and has motivated many legislators, mostly from the Democratic party, to advocate for the banning of assault weapons. The use of semi-automatic guns should be illegal in the United States because they are unsafe and useless for citizens. If semi-automatic weapons were made illegal, people will be safer. It is proven that when gun-control laws are enacted, less homicides occur. In 2007, there were 88.8 guns in the United States per 100…

them one last time, their lives were abruptly taken from them without warning and nothing has been done to prevent these deaths from happening again and again. Semi-automatic firearms, rifles in particular have become the weapon of choice of mass shooters and there is absolutely no reason to have them be legal. Banning semi-automatic firearms would lower the chances of a mass shooting from…

regulation actually reduce gun violence” (Goldberg)? “Semi automatic firearms are not “more powerful” than other guns, gun control supporters say that semi automatic firearms are high powered” (Merino). “However, a firearm’s power is determined by the caliber or gauge of its ammunition” (Merino). “Semi automatic firearms are not fully automatic military machine guns” (Merino). “They fire only once when the trigger is pulled unlike a fully automatic firearm which can fire all bullets with one…