“Even legal, semiautomatic assault weapons aren’t precision instruments. Though each bullet fired requires a separate squeeze of the trigger (unlike fully automatic weapons), after the first round is fired, the trigger loosens for subsequent rounds. It still takes only seconds to dump a high-capacity magazine.”
Some elements of truth here but she has a long way to go in her journalistic accuracy. I do commend her on differentiating between semi-auto and fully automatic guns...even though she is a little hazy about what kind of gun’s trigger gets easier to pull after the first round.
I found her argument about a trigger getting easier to operate at variance with the laws of physics and basic metallurgy.
A spring does not loosen in a single actuation or even a few dozen. It is repeated actuations, in the 200,000 range that may have some nominal effect on a spring and more in the 2,000,000 range for a spring to start to show signs of metal fatigue and begin to relax in an amount that might be discernible to an inexperienced user.