P.U.T.U said:
Full auto on a pistol is just spray and pray.
On the Cleared Hot podcast with Andy Stumpf (SEAL team 6 guy) he has interviewed a ton of SOF guys and none of them have ever done CQB with their weapons on auto, only semiauto (5.56/300blackout). Said you are way more accurate in semiauto mode than auto. The only exception is with the use of the MP7 since it has almost no recoil and uses a small bullet.
Not to put too fine a point on it…but you need to understand how these national asset hostage rescue units train. The basic assaulter school run by the Army for SF is six weeks long, six days a week. Shooting live every day.
Over the entire class in the houses you get three (3…1+1+1…3) bullet impacts off target and you are dismissed from the class and returned to your unit. Think about that for a minute…
The prime reason is that every round that doesn't hit something warm and wet to slow it down can go through a wall and injure/kill an Eagle on the other side. Most don't understand that in that mission you have, literally, not much more than a minute to to get to the target (hostages) before the bad guys come to their senses and start killing them. That means that every door, every window, the ceiling, the floor, and walls that are turned into doors, have guys coming through them all at once, literally flooding the structure. Bullets can't go where they are not intended.
It doesn't happen often, but teams have literally been on both sides of a door breaching it at the same time. That's how fast it happens. I have a friend who career was cut short when he caught a deadbolt lock with his knee that had been punched out from the other side by another breacher using a Hatton round. He was putting a strip charge on the door, so it was better that he was hit than if his breach was initiated.
Anyway, full auto has a place. Even G18s.