Comments on: Auto-Revolvers https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/auto-revolvers/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/auto-revolvers/comment-page-1/#comment-715614 Isegoria Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:08:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30803#comment-715614 If a young person happens to read an old book or magazine article from 20 to 30 years ago — well, that’s a risk I’m willing to take. More seriously, I think it makes sense to reserve “automatic” for “machine guns” of all sizes, but I do wish we had a shorter term for “semi-automatic”. “Auto-loader” isn’t that much better. I suppose we should choose the most innocuous name we can think of…

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2013/01/auto-revolvers/comment-page-1/#comment-715375 Bob Sykes Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:42:06 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=30803#comment-715375 For some unknown reason, the historical term “automatic pistol” has been replaced by “semi-automatic pistol.” This happened about 15 to 20 years ago. Even the NRA publications use the new term. I guess people are trying to merge the terminology for rifles and pistols. The problem is, if a young person happens to read an old book or magazine article from 20 to 30 years ago, they might think that a Colt 1911 is some sort of machine pistol.

This is in the same category as calling a semiautomatic AR 15 an assault rifle — the original was — or using blue to represent socialists and red to represent conservatives.

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