Many automatic weapons have only two settings - safe and burst.
The M60 for example, a weapon I am intimately familar with, is one of the above. However, even though it fires at 550 rounds per minute, or 9 per second, it is possible to fire single shots after just a few minutes practice. Don't count on the shots being as accurate as a rifle though as it was designed to spread the rounds about a little (not enough that you'd notice normally, but enough that you're not going to want to snipe with it).
The Bren gun was a little different. Although classified as a machinegun despite it's rather inadequate ammunition supply (magazines on a fully automatic weapon?), one of the greatest complaints I've heard about it was not the mags, nor the weight (it's a bit of a beast for an LMG) but the accuracy - it tends to actually put rounds from a burst in the same place!
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Last edited by Legbreaker; 11-17-2009 at 03:45 PM.
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