u better hit with the FIRST shot, most of the time and if you are behind cover, as you SHOULD be within a second or so of being shot at, it doesn't really matter if your rifle malfunctions 1 time in 10 shots. Look at all the fools who THINK that a bolt action is still a viable combat rifle, ferchrisakes. It takes a bolt user 6 seconds to get 4 hits on a 25 yd chest circle (10") while it takes and AR=15 user the same amount of time to get 24 hits. :-) Or he can get the 4 hits in 1 second flat. So, having to take 1.5 seconds to clear a malfunction, and 2.5 seconds to get the other 9 hits totals 4 seconds, still WAY ahead of a bolt action fan's 15 seconds, and about tied with the very best possible performance with a lever action. Look at all the fools who "think" a lever action is "almost" as fast as an autoloader! :-) Yeah, like a 20 second 100 yd dash is "almost as fast" as a 10 second 100 yd dash! In practice, the lever action is lethally slower than the autorifle, guys.