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Originally Posted by Willravel
Having a weapon that you have to cock means that you give an audible signal that you're armed and you likely give away your location. If a home invader is armed, you don't think he would open fire in direction of a gun cocking? My point is that with an automatic weapon, the first sound is a 12 gauge shotgun going off.
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Very few people, relatively speaking, own
automatic weapons. Most self-feeding pistols, shotguns, rifles, etc., are semi-automatic (you have to release the trigger & then squeeze it again to get the next round to fire).
You can make very little noise pulling the hammer back on a pistol, shotgun, rifle, etc. If I kept a pump-action shotgun (I do have a pump-action rifle) for home defense, I'd have the first round already chambered so that all I had to do was release the safety & be ready to shoot. Semi-automatic weapons need to have the first round chambered before they'll shoot. That can be done fairly quietly; I keep my semi-automatic handguns with the round already chambered.