The 2 August deadline isn't an automatic trigger for disaster.
As for the rest of this year under the debt limit deal, the Super Committee and Congress could actually meet the requirements to avoid the cuts of the automatic sequestration trigger without a tax increase by adopting the Ryan budget.
The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.
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If President Obama and the Democrats refuse, let the automatic spending cuts trigger, and take the case to the people in 2012.
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The Frommer's deal is too small to trigger an automatic review by antitrust authorities.
That would make the immediate threat of liquidation go away and provide some short-term stability, but it would also trigger an automatic 10-point penalty from the Football League, with the prospect of further sanctions to come.
Weapons like the Bushmaster mimic the appearance and some features of fully automatic military rifles, though they technically do not meet the definition of an assault weapon because they are semi-automatic -- meaning each shot requires a trigger pull.
These automatic weapons which fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull are illegal for any civilians to own unless they have acquired a very special Class III permit.
The fiscal cliff includes automatic, across-the-board spending cuts set to trigger at the beginning of next year if Capitol Hill fails to work out a deficit-reduction plan.
And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said.
We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.
There are deadlines that trigger penalties, milestones that result in bonuses that must be collected actively, and even oft-ignored automatic renewals.
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