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Originally Posted by Suave
If a semi-auto pistol is single action, that means that it has to be cocked only once per magazine (on the first round), correct?
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Yes. As long as you understand that it is still possible to manually drop the hammer before you finish the magazine.
A Single Action semi-auto will then have to be manually cocked for it to be ready to fire again. Then the next trigger press will fire.
A Double Action semi-auto doesn't require that you cock it manually. If the hammer is down on a loaded chamber a trigger pull can both cock and release the hammer to fire the next round. Note that most DA semi-autos are actually DA/SA in that aside from firing with the hammer-down on a loaded chamber (aka. "first shot") the remaining shots are SA ... ie. indistinguishable from a SA pistol.
Then there are the "DAO" Double Action Only and "Glock Action" types of pistols ... but I won't get into them now for the sake of brevity.
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Originally Posted by Suave
Once the first round is shot, it will re-cock itself until the mag is empty?
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That's true of ANY semi-auto pistol regardless of it being SA or DA.