An automatic firearm is a firearm that automatically extracts and ejects the fired cartridge case, and loads a new case, usually through the energy of the fired round. This article is about the.50 caliber M2 machine gun For the.30-06 M2 machine gun see M1919 Browning machine gun. A firearm is a Tool that projects either single or multiple Projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion A cartridge (also known as a "round" packages the Bullet, Gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the The term can be used to refer to semi-automatic firearms, which fire one shot per pull of the trigger, or fully automatic firearms, which will continue to load and fire ammunition as long as the trigger (or other activating device) is pressed or until the ammunition is exhausted. A semi-automatic, or self-loading Firearm is a gun that requires only a trigger pull for each round that is fired unlike a single-action Ammunition, often referred to as ammo, is a generic term derived from the French language la munition which "Automatic pistol" or "automatic shotgun" generally refers to a semi-automatic design, while "automatic rifle" more often means a fully automatic or selective fire design. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number A selective fire Firearm can be fired in both semi-automatic and any number of automatic modes by means of a selector

Fully automatic weapons tend to be restricted to military and police organizations in most developed countries. A military is an Organization authorized by its Nation to use force usually including use of Weapons in defending its Country (or by attacking Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force In the United States, machine guns registered after 1986 have been off the public market since the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA, Pub L No 99-308 100 Stat Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) See Gun politics for more information. Gun politics is a set of legal issues surrounding the ownership use and regulation of firearms as well as safety issues related to firearms both through their direct use and through

Fully automatic firearms are covered in these articles:

• Machine gun
  • General purpose machine gun
  • Heavy machine gun
  • Light machine gun
  • Medium machine gun
  • Squad automatic weapon
• Submachine gun
• Assault rifle
• Automatic rifle
• Machine pistol

Other similar designs not usually classified as automatic firearms are:

• Autocannon, which are 20 mm in bore diameter or larger and thus considered cannons, not small arms. For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. A general purpose machine gun ( GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon a Machine gun intended to fill the role of either a Light machine gun or A heavy machine gun refers to either a larger-caliber high-power Machine gun or one of the smaller medium-caliber (rifle caliber machine guns meant for prolonged firing from A light machine gun or LMG is a Machine gun that is generally lighter than other machine guns of the same period and is usually designed to be carried A medium machine gun or MMG, in modern terms usually refers to a belt-fed Automatic firearm firing a full-power Rifle cartridge and For the weapon known in British Forces service as the LSW see SA80 For the weapon known in American service as the SAW see M249 A squad automatic A submachine gun (SMG is a Firearm that combines the automatic fire of a Machine gun with the cartridge of a Pistol, and is An assault rifle is a Selective fire Rifle or Carbine (not to be confused with a semi-automatic only replica firing Ammunition with muzzle Automatic rifle is a term generally used to describe a Self-loading rifle chambered for a rifle cartridge capable of delivering both semi A machine pistol is a Handgun -style magazine -fed and self-loading Firearm, capable of fully automatic or burst fire and normally chambered An autocannon is a rapid fire projectile Weapon. Autocannon often have a larger Caliber (calibre than a Machine gun (i
• Gatling guns, multi-barrelled bolt-action designs, often used with external power supplies to generate rates of fire higher than automatic firearms. The Gatling gun is considered by some to have been the first Machine gun: although it did not automatically reload under its own power it was capable of firing continuously For the fictional characters see Gunbarrel (Transformers. A gun barrel is the tube usually Metal, through which a controlled Explosion The term bolt action refers to a type of Firearm action in which the weapon's bolt is operated manually by the opening and closing of the breech with

Similar in appearance but not able to fire in full-auto mode are some semi-automatic rifles. A semi-automatic rifle is a type of Rifle that fires a single Bullet each time the trigger is pulled without the need manually to operate a The visual similarity has led to the public usage of the term assault weapon to describe some semi-automatic weapons (as opposed to the military usage of the term). The term Assault weapon is derived from the term Assault rifle, itself a translation of the German word Sturmgewehr, literally "storm-rifle"

Patents

• U.S. Patent 1,227,897  — Automatic gun

See also

• Firearm action
• Bump fire - a technique to simulate fully-automatic firing with a semi-automatic rifle
• Federal Firearms License
• Gun Control Act of 1968

References

In Firearms terminology an action is the system of operation used to load rounds and/or seal the Breech. Bump firing is the act of using the recoil of a firearm with or without a stock to fire multiple rounds in rapid succession A Federal Firearms License, (FFL is a License that enables an individual or a company to engage in a business pertaining to the manufacture of firearms and ammunition The Gun Control Act of 1968, Pub L No 90-618 82 Stat 1213 (also known as GCA or GCA68, and codified as Chapter 44 of Title 18 United States Code

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