A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm, is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepa
The Fusil Automatique Modele 1917 was the first semi-automatic gun that fires cartridges to be widely issued in the infantry of any nation's army.
SIG Pro semi-automatic pistol
Glock 18, a fully-automatic machine pistol from the mid-1980s (The picture shown is the Glock 18C)
An automatic firearm or fully automatic firearm is a self-loading firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capa
A M2 Browning machine gun, surrounded by ejected cartridge cases
An American soldier with an M60 machine gun during the Vietnam War