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>FWIW, a lot of the older semi-autos in NZ are ex-NATO military weapons with automatic function disabled by a pin modification. For a while it was fashionable for wags to undo the modification and spray bullets about, but everybody I knew soon undid their hack because auto fire is inaccurate and not enough fun to justify the ammo expense!
GI's in Korea did the exact opposite.
There were 2 versions of the 30 Cal carbine.
The M1 was semi-automatic.
The M2 could be switched to either semi or fully auto. I had one of them.
Someone figured an easy way to file a pin on the M1 and make it fully auto.
That effectively ruined the weapon, though.
You really couldn't control that thing when it was on auto mode.
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