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Old 04-09-2009, 08:51 PM
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Default an automatic term refering to a handgun

Where did the notion of the term "an automatic" started to refer to semi-auto handguns? You hear it all the time in movies and even in papers and spoken by everyone, but since semi-auto is semi-auto and not "automatic" where did this little habbit started?
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