Led by the Dutch, they fought a rearguard action to preserve something of the semi-automatic weapon.
As he turned and ran, he heard gunshots, followed by an automatic weapon firing.
An unknown assailant pulled out a semi-automatic weapon and started firing at the preacher.
Streets are deserted in some suburbs but in central areas witnesses reported bursts of automatic weapon fire.
The gunman is reported to have been armed with a handgun, an automatic weapon and a shotgun.
His point was that nobody needs a semi-automatic weapon to protect their home.
One owns a semi-automatic weapon almost exclusively to protect oneself should the U.S. government wage war on its citizens.
It could have been you, or me, at a community event on the receiving end of an automatic weapon irrationally being fired.
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Alternatively, one requires a semi-automatic weapon should another nation invade the U.S. and our security forces are unable to repel the intruder.
Though already judged to be too ill and dangerous to self and others to attend community college, he was still OK, given current procedures, to buy an automatic weapon.
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The acting national police chief, Sveinung Sponheim, told reporters in Oslo that the gun was an automatic weapon and that undetonated explosives were found on the island after the attack.
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The Palestinian gunman, armed with an automatic weapon, crept into the settlement and opened fire on two girls who were sitting outside their house, Israeli security sources told French news agency AFP.
Even as I consider taking up hunting out of a desire to procure my own food, not for sport or security I am struck by the absurdity of owning a semi-automatic weapon.
In the Uruzgan incident on Tuesday afternoon, Australian officials said an Afghan soldier fired on colleagues with an automatic weapon and a grenade launcher at a patrol base in the Charmestan region, north-east of Tarin Kot.
Even Joan, who fought poachers at her lakeside sanctuary at Naivasha, was in the end gunned down in her bedroom, the automatic weapon fired from so close to the window that the muzzle blast set fire to the curtains.
So, for example, competency for a complex white collar financial industry crime would require a much higher level of psychological functioning than, for example, the much clearer situation of taking an automatic weapon and opening fire at a public political event.
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In an op-ed published Wednesday by The Daily Caller , LaPierre twisted more than a few facts while arguing that the world is hell and attempting to navigate your way through it without a semi-automatic weapon at your side can only be perceived as sheer madness.
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What can be done about the fact that a murderously deranged young man with a lengthy police record had been found too unstable to be a student at a community college and had been rejected by the Army, yet had absolutely no problem buying an automatic weapon with an extended magazine and carrying it concealed anywhere he wanted?
In one corner, the vast right wing conspiracy has the awkward job of explaining why any citizen who is not a convicted felon or certified loon should be able to walk into his local Walmart and buy a 30-round clip for his semi-automatic weapon with no questions asked, and that outlawing anything short of a bazooka spells death for the Second Amendment.
In particular, opponents contend the proposed ban on semi-automatic rifles focuses on a weapon used in a tiny percentage of killings and other gun violence.
Weapons like the Bushmaster mimic the appearance and some features of fully automatic military rifles, though they technically do not meet the definition of an assault weapon because they are semi-automatic -- meaning each shot requires a trigger pull.
There are eight categories of weapon, ranging from automatic hardware and machine guns which are prohibited, to hunting equipment allowed with a hunting permit.
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The attorney general said a search of Spyropoulos' home turned up two semi-automatic handguns, a shotgun and a rifle that police described as an assault weapon.
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