Led by the Dutch, they fought a rearguard action to preserve something of the semi-automatic weapon.

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The gunman is reported to have been armed with a handgun, an automatic weapon and a shotgun.

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His point was that nobody needs a semi-automatic weapon to protect their home.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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