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How automatic rifles work

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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
May 06 2008 19:05 GMT
#1
I'm looking for either journals, books, or articles that describe how automatic/semi automatic rifles work. I've come up with very little through both Google and the search engines available at my university despite quite a bit of time and effort.

Any help is appreciated. Please leave links if you do. Thanks ^_^

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Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4640 Posts
May 06 2008 19:17 GMT
#2
Great site in general
This neo violence, pure self defiance
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
May 06 2008 19:19 GMT
#3
just a random thought, but shoot an email to NRA. I'm sure they want to improve their public perception so they might give you some info~
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
May 06 2008 19:30 GMT
#4
Semi-Automatics: (you can guess automatic from that)

Basically a semi-automatic gun uses the thrust or "kick" from the bullet to cock the gun again so you can just pull the trigger again without having to manually pull back the hammer, but you still have to pull the trigger each time, unlike automatic weapons that keep firing so long as the trigger is pulled down.
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d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-06 19:56:31
May 06 2008 19:42 GMT
#5
Basically a semi-automatic gun uses the thrust or "kick" from the bullet to cock the gun
This is not quite right, for the reloading is not necessarily done through the recoil. Modern rifles are operated by gas-loading systems. You're right about the semi-automatic description though. Oh, and Hittegods links says it all, just browse through the site.
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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
May 06 2008 20:18 GMT
#6
Not sure what kind of information you are looking for, but here are a bunch of books:

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/42175912/how rifles work?tab=summary
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24648 Posts
May 06 2008 20:37 GMT
#7
State your exigency! (why do you want these articles? for a paper?)
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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
May 06 2008 21:20 GMT
#8
On May 07 2008 05:18 fight_or_flight wrote:
Not sure what kind of information you are looking for, but here are a bunch of books:

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/42175912/how rifles work?tab=summary



Ahh, thanks! didn't even think of going on a torrent site.

Its for a paper (class is Honors Workshop). Have to look at an issue from three diverse perspectives (history/psych/engineering) and the topic I chose is "Child Soldiers and Sierra Leone."

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d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
May 06 2008 22:11 GMT
#9
Well, those kids mostly carry AK-47s or Type 56s (Chinese copy), so I can see the relation to your paper, but I'm somehow afraid you're missing the point of the same, if you'll go about the mechanics of said assault rifles..
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fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
May 06 2008 22:44 GMT
#10
On May 07 2008 06:20 Dknight wrote:
Have to look at an issue from three diverse perspectives (history/psych/engineering)

btw, those three perspectives can be summed up with one word: economics
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Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
May 06 2008 22:53 GMT
#11
I can just explain it and your source can be "Kennigit from the internets". It's actually really simple :\
Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
May 06 2008 23:35 GMT
#12
On May 07 2008 07:53 Kennigit wrote:
I can just explain it and your source can be "Kennigit from the internets". It's actually really simple :\

Here I'll do the bibliography for you.

Kennigit, "How automatic Rifles work", www.teamliquid.net, blog section. May 07 2008.

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Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
May 07 2008 01:30 GMT
#13
On May 07 2008 07:53 Kennigit wrote:
I can just explain it and your source can be "Kennigit from the internets". It's actually really simple :\


I'm listening!
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Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-07 04:41:55
May 07 2008 04:13 GMT
#14
Have to look at an issue from three diverse perspectives (history/psych/engineering) and the topic I chose is "Child Soldiers and Sierra Leone".


dk u prob already know then of Ismael Beah and his book but just in case ~ here is a short interview in mp3 format, a youtube clip and some interesting discussions http://www.radioopensource.org/ishmael-beah-boy-soldier/
it might help u with the psych part to hear him tell his own story if u don't have time to read his book (great, autobiographical: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier)

(he is in great part the guy who brought awareness to this horrible situation)

hope it helps ~
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rpf
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2705 Posts
May 07 2008 04:33 GMT
#15
In layman's terms:

A semi-automatic rifle will fire one shot per trigger pull. So, if you pull the trigger once, it'll shoot one round. If you pull the trigger and do not release it, it will still only fire one round. A fully-automatic rifle will continually fire rounds until the trigger is released.

When you pull the trigger, the firing of the first round and ejection of that round's cartridge will then use that force to load the next round. In an automatic rifle, the hammer will also be cocked again so that the next shot will fire. In a semi-automatic rifle, that won't happen. Instead, the hammer will just remain in its position of contact with a cartridge.

Imagine this in your head:
- You slowly pull the trigger back, and the hammer moves backwards
- You hit the "breaking point," the hammer is released, and the round is fired
- The cartridge is ejected, and the next round is loaded, and if the weapon is fully-automatic, the hammer will also be cocked again

Do you want a more technical explanation?
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