Burst mode

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In automatic firearms, burst mode or burst-fire is a firing mode enabling the shooter to fire a predetermined number of rounds, usually two or three rounds on handheld weapons to fifty or more rounds on autocannons, with a single pull of the trigger.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Burst mode (weapons)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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