Rifle Used in Orlando Shooting Was Designed for Military Use The gun was a Sig Sauer MCX, a new model built from the ground for FULL AUTO MILITARY USE. So every poster here claiming that the gun was a semi auto AR-15 is an uninformed fool.
This is new info that was previously not available, so now we need to find out how this gun was acquired, and if he bought it legally, why did the FBI allow this.
Somebody really screwed up here........................
wrong.....please ....do some more research....you can't sell fully auto weapons at gun stores.....you still need the paperwork and that takes a long time.......
Doofus, the weapon was a full auto, we do not know where he got the weapon, you are assuming...............
And they are for sale at gun shops, to law enforcement. So do some more research kiddy
You are confused.
The article says that it was semi auto.
Unless you are military or police you cannot legally buy a full auto weapon in the US unless it is on the NFA register, which was cut off by the Hughes Amendment in 1986. Then you have pay the NFA tax and get approval from the local chief law enforcement officer, which usually takes six months or longer.
That firearm was not sold as a Class III automatic. He may have converted it but it was not legally sold to him as a full auto rifle.
Please, if you are going to comment on this stuff you really need to educate yourself. Whenever you Moon Bats try to talk about firearms all you ever do is make a fool of yourself. You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground about it.
The article says it was a semi auto and a military spec gun only available to the military and law enforcement, I think the data comes from a company flier or something because both can not be true together.
The article didn't say anything of substance. You simply have no idea what you were reading.
Sig developed the rifle as a military/LEO platform.
The military/LEO is select fire - semi/full auto.
The civilian model is not. It is only semi auto.
The civilian model is not the same as the one Sig sells to the law enforcement and military market.
They are as different a rifle as an AR-15 is to a M-16.
There are many rifles that are designed as full auto but sold on the civilian market as semi auto. For instance I have a semi auto FAL and semi auto M-14 not to mention the AR-15s that are semi auto clones of the M-16s.
By the way, as an owner of a legal full auto Class III M-16 I can tell you that it is not very useful on full auto for several reasons. It is a fun gun to shoot at the range but in the unlikely event I ever had to use it for self defense I would use it on semi.