He invented the radio direction finder, autopilot and the first fully automatic aircraft landing system.
They are not military weapons - military automatics are fully automatic and are already illegal.
On other convoys along those same roads, Marissa's husband, Specialist Charlie Bootes, manned a Mark-19 fully automatic grenade launcher.
We have, for example, restricted ownership of fully automatic weapons and grenade launchers.
The guns covered by the original were not the fully automatic machine guns used by the military, but semiautomatic versions of those guns.
The 62-year-old had been released from a federal prison three weeks earlier after pleading guilty earlier to possessing illegal firearms, including five fully automatic firearms.
The weapons, which will be converted from fully automatic to semi-automatic for safety reasons, will be assigned to sergeants and carried in the trunks of their cars.
Obama seeks an updated version of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004, that would prevent the manufacture and sale of some semi-automatic rifles modeled after fully automatic assault weapons.
Background checks would be more thorough, gun owners would have to reapply for licences every five years, and fully automatic assault rifles, armour-piercing bullets, lifelike toy guns, and gun-lending would be banned.
Our tradition ranges from Hiram S. Maxim, inventor of the first fully automatic machine gun, who was born in 1840 in Sangerville, Maine, to the renowned Bath Iron Works, which produces the world's most advanced surface warships.
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.
As technologies evolve that the Founders could not have possibly anticipated -- from fully automatic weapons and thermal imagers to satellites and digital technologies -- we have to figure out how to balance our rights as individuals and needs as a society.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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Under the changes, which are expected to come fully into effect in 2014, teachers will no longer receive automatic annual pay rises, but will get annual appraisals with schools deciding on salary levels.
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