despite having never shot a gun i will get very annoyed at imprecise use of gun-related terminology on the internet, because i find these engineered mechanisms fascinating and an interesting object of study
engineered objects consist of parts each of which serve a purpose! they're not just things with an aestheti[gets shot]
but also have you ever looked into how absurdly difficult it is to make a reliable automatic feeding and extraction mechanism? like when i was a child i didn't care for guns much but i was wondering how you'd design such a thing
many years later i have a much more detailed understanding of how one works, but i still wonder how you'd design such a thing
especially with like, no high speed cameras, no CAM/CAE, nothing but your mind and a sheet of paper