semi-automatic

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Police said the suspect pointed a semi-automatic handgun at the clerk at Advantage Wireless, 77 West Main St. The man left the store with some phones and cash, got in a dark-colored sedan and drove west toward Interstate 495, police said.

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  1. Partly automatic: used in describing many machines for the manufacture of duplicate articles in which the will and action of the human attendant is brought into play in the process. Such are turret-lathes and some screw-and-bolt and nut-machines. The cutting-tools may be automatic so far as action and sizing are concerned, but they are brought into action at the discretion of the operator. The locomotive and motor-car are semi-automatic in this sense. The full automatics perform their functions when supplied with stock and started, no human intervention being required to start the successive operations.

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  • The M1 Garand (United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1) was the first semi-automatic rifle to see issued service with the US military. —  Kit Up
  • Issued in 1936, the Garand was so successful in combat during the Second World War (the Garand was the only semi-automatic service rifle to see near universal service with any army during the war) that General George S. Patton declared it "the greatest implement of battle ever devised." —  Kit Up
  • Mrs Clinton said she favours the reinstatement of a federal ban on selling semi-automatic —  Latest Articles
  • A search of Ward revealed a loaded .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol in his pocket.
  • Police said the suspect pointed a semi-automatic handgun at the clerk at Advantage Wireless, 77 West Main St. The man left the store with some phones and cash, got in a dark-colored sedan and drove west toward Interstate 495, police said. —  The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS
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