Another School Shooting

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(05-25-2018, 02:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Then why does the military use semi auto rifles?

Suppression of return fire through fire superiority is the answer to that question.

Yet the chosen sniper rifle for the Army and Marine Corps were the M24 and the M40, both bolt actions. Special Forces also use the MSR, which is bolt action.

Even the trend of DRMs like the SR-25 for Afghanistan are rifles that have slower firing rates and single fire only.

Increased fire rate is mainly just to make the other guys duck down and stop firing back at you, or at least take a lot less time to properly aim their return fire.



EDIT: Remembered something a drill sergeant told me when I was in Basic. The reason why a lot of models of M16 don't have automatic fire options anymore is because on the first model used in Vietnam they had single or autofire options and there was something like 50,000 rounds fired per dead enemy combatant. Not sure if that's a legit stat, but it was what I was told when I was in.