And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Automatic refers to either the ability to use single or double action or the ease by which the barrel is slipped out/off. Not how many bullets are fired on each trigger pull. Or at least that is how I read it :-)
The Webley was also and automatic. That meant the mechanism re-cocked the hammer and rotated the cylinder after each shot, so it was always in single action mode.
Automatic? Neat-looking latching action though.
ReplyDeleteAutomatic refers to either the ability to use single or double action or the ease by which the barrel is slipped out/off. Not how many bullets are fired on each trigger pull. Or at least that is how I read it :-)
ReplyDeleteI think the "automatic" refers to the ejection of the cases as the gun is opened.
ReplyDeleteThat is, indeed what is meant.
DeleteThe Webley was also and automatic. That meant the mechanism re-cocked the hammer and rotated the cylinder after each shot, so it was always in single action mode.
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