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An automatic firearm is a Firearm that uses the energy of firing to extract and eject the fired Cartridge case, and load a new case. The term can be used to refer to Semi-automatic Firearm s, which fire one shot per pull of the trigger, or fully-automatic firearms, which will continue to load and fire Ammunition as long as the trigger (or other activating device) is pressed or until it runs out of ammunition. Which meaning is intended is generally discernable by context. "Automatic Pistol " or "automatic Shotgun " generally refers to a semi-automatic design, while "automatic rifle" more often means a fully-automatic or Selective Fire design. Fully-automatic weapons tend to be restricted to Military and Police personnel in most developed countries. In the United States , machine guns registered after 1986 have been off the public market since the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 . See Gun Politics for more information. Fully-automatic firearms are covered in these articles:
Other similar designs not usually classified as automatic firearms are:
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