Wombaticus Rex wrote:Elvis wrote:
Just a note---AR15 is not a fully automatic rifle. However, one can pull the trigger pretty fast, and I've emptied those long clips in a (semiauto) AR15 in just a few seconds.
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Thanks for learning me. I've only ever played with full models, didn't realize they were modified. I'm also even more baffled at the utility of gas cartridges in the AR-15 now! Engineers are a strange breed.
what gas cartridges? I think whatever reference to gas powered or whatever you saw is a reference to the fact the the exhaust gas from the rounds push the mechanism back to starting position and load the next round automatically. It's just an m16a2 without the three round burst option, isn't it? (the gun is capable of fully automatic firing if modified, but unless they've changed it again, even the m16s only will fire a 3 round burst. too many folks got worked up and fired off all their ammo at once with the old full auto setting.)
but 5.62mm rounds doesn't sound like what he was firing, from the wounds described. Maybe he had extra long grain or something, or maybe it's some kinda modified ar15 to use larger ammo?