To me and a very few others here , that hand gun just fired bullets like every Semi auto would.
Correct--if one focuses only on the outward similarities.
The rub to many of you is HOW the revolver did this and not that it actually does fire a bullet each time you pull a trigger.
No, it's not that it's a problem for many of us, it's how semi-automatic function is defined. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of definition. The 'auto' in semi-auto is from a Greek word that means SELF. The KEY to semi-automatic function is that the gun loads the chamber/puts a round under the hammer by itSELF.
Semi-automatic function is NOT defined by firing a round every time the trigger is pulled, it is defined by the gun putting the next round under the hammer without need for the shooter to do anything.
Too many Politician are wanting to ban all semi auto weapons and high capacity magazines also. Would you put it past these same people to try include revolvers as semi autos ?
Not without changing the definition of semi-automatic or forming a new legal definition of the term. As it currently stands, the definition of semi-automatic prevents it from applying to conventional revolvers.
they will reason that the revolver fires bullets the same as a Semi auto?
It does NOT. That is the key. The defintion of semi-automatic is NOT firing a bullet every time the trigger is pulled. It has to do with how that next round gets into position to be fired. The fact that a gun fires a bullet with each operation of the trigger is INSUFFICIENT to state that it is semi-automatic.
The functionality would make no difference.
It DOES make a difference. You can't argue that you think they are the same and therefore they are the same. By definition they are different. Unless you change the definitions, they can't be the same.
What you're doing is like saying that salt is white and crystalline and therefore it is the same thing as sugar because sugar is also white and crystalline. Just because, at a superficial level they appear to be similar doesn't actually MAKE them the same thing. Salt is composed of sodium and chorine. Sugar is composed of hydrogen and carbon. They are FUNDAMENTALLY different things even if they appear to be similar at a glance.
You are choosing to focus exclusively on an outward similarity between double-action revolvers and semi-automatic pistols and also choosing to ignore a fundamental difference between the two things. The fact that they seem to operate similarly doesn't make them equivalent.