Comments on: Misused Gun Terms – Is It a Big Deal?

By: Allen Benge

Allen Benge — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:32:00 +0000

To accuse the author of ignorance is not necessary. In a manner of speaking. calling double action as semi-auto is correct. It does not matter if the shell casing is ejected or not, and has nothing really to do with semi or single action. Semi-auto is perhaps better called a ‘self feeder,’ as all that is necessary to fire successive rounds is for a mechanism that can feed the firing chamber the next round for firing, without operating a bolt, pulling the hammer back or other separate motion. a double action revolver uses internal mechanics to rotate the cylinder and prepare it to be fired. A semi-auto uses gases from the fired round to cock the action and bring the next round into the chamber. In the semi-auto, the empty shell is ejected, but that is irrelevent to this discussion. A revolver retains the empty shells, to be removed later. there existed at least one semi-auto revolver that prepared the pistol for the next round and cocked the hammer. The British Webley-Fosbury did everything a modern semi-auto does but eject the shell.

By: jfekendall

jfekendall — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 03:37:00 +0000

Call me pedantic, but I see the word “bullet” being used in this article loosely too. You used the word to describe the cartridge in several cases.

By: ACAV

ACAV — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 01:40:00 +0000

“Cylinder fed, single or double action,
handgun. Available in either
semi-automatic (“double action”) or single-action.” Semi-automatic,
I wish the author had known what they were talking about. The
spent cartridge is not ejected in a revolver, it is not semi-automatic; it is
however double action…….