re: Don Lemon (CNN) doesn't know different between Semi-Auto and Auto Weapons

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This matters sooooo much - the distinction between technical meanings and conventional meanings of words. You should send Lemmon some hate mail.

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I think the BATF's website is a much more reliable source of information for these matters than wikipedia, and I know for a fact that as for as the BATF and the FBI are concerned, the difference between semiautomatic and automatic is as big as the difference between lightning bug and lightning. In other words, it's not just semantics.

I was once pulled over for a traffic violation when I had a semiautomatic gun in my glove compartment. When asked to produce my license and registration, I informed the cop that I a gun in my glove compartment, at which point he walked to the passenger side of the vehicle and removed the gun so that I could get my papers. After he finished writing the ticket, he retunred the gun and I drove off without incident. If that semiautomatic weapon had been an automatic weapon, I would have been looking at some serious time in federal prison, unless I could produce a ton of paperwork that is about as hard to get as joining the CIA.