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Well, I can understand why. During WWII, about 600 billion rounds of rifle and pistol ammunition was produced around the world. About 60 million were killed, with only 18 million of those combat personnel. Simple math will give you an idea of how many bullets were fired to produce one casualty. I suspect about the same ratio when hunting with a full-auto anything. A good example are the YouTube videos showing a bunch of guys shooting pigs from a helicopter using full-auto AR15 type weapons. Their kill ratio from single fire was much better than when they used full-auto.

Now if you're just trying to scare the daylights out of the rats (no pun intended), you're probably safe in saying you did. But if you want to snipe for real kill to round ratio, then single rounds make a while lot more sense.

By the way, the FLEX is a bolt action, so no chance of full-auto there.

I saw reviews on youtube of the Evanix and they all had a similar opinion. While not terribly useful it was great fun. I agree...that's all this is about.

When someone points out the problem of unwanted attention from the government...then the whole bias is political.

I'm aware that the Flex is a bolt action...I have one on order. What I meant by that is a rifle in the "class" of the Flex.

One reason not to own a full-auto firearm is expense. Ammo is not cheap. When you can run through 600 rounds in a minute...you better reload, or own your own ammo company. 

A fully automatic air rifle is almost perfect, cheap to shoot, almost noiseless with little recoil. I can tell you from personal experience that keeping an FN FAL on target running full-auto is absolutely impossible. Keeping a .25 cal 10 pound air rifle on target running full-auto is, most likely, extremely possible. The youtube Evanix videos show it done and done easily.

What I mean by political bias is someone telling me what I can or can not have, based upon their opinion that it isn't useful. An air rifle isn't a firearm and shouldn't be compared to one. It's an apples and bowling balls comparison to show any equivalency.

I would really like to have a full-auto air rifle. You leave it on semi-auto for target shooting and flip the fun switch to make you laugh...

Here is a link explaining Pyrimid Air's/ air ventuti reason for not carrying full auto Airguns
Air ventuti is a major importer of Airguns and they own PA and AGD and I think Airgun warehouse.
The question about full auto has been asked many times
http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=42062.msg397107#msg397107

Hope this helps

Dave

I had one of the first full auto Evanix when came out and functioned just fine, the next owner never had problems and the current owner reports that the gun is still fine, I think they took the auto feature off more as a precaution for fear of possible repercussion both from public opinion and law, However it's easy to get those guns even today back to full, Will Piatt does that for a small fee.

I was able to do Quarter size groups at 30 yards with 3 shots bursts

And killed this Big, knarly boar with a 3 shot burst, so yeah they can be used efficiently 

Done...Ordered from Pyramyd (got 10% off and free shipping..woohoo!) and it will be drop shipped to Will Piatt where he'll put a selector switch in it, extend the shroud and add baffles to hush it up. He'll also put an adjustment screw in transfer port and re-machine the fill probe to a foster connection

Will says that these things aren't perfect so I have to set my expectations...I know the quality, power and accuracy will be an order of magnitude less than the Flex that WAR is doing for me.

I got the Max Bullpup in .25 caliber. It'll be fun to shoot off the back deck...

Raccoons....death to all racoons!