I shot an M2 carbine in 1965 when I was 14 years old. I fired it semi auto, but the adults were shooting full auto. They got 3 shots off before they could get their fingers off the trigger.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps