I've always known that you could fire individual shots in burst (because hey, you can fire one shot in full auto mode), but that cam that counts the shots is news to me.
Guns sure are amazing.
It's how the thing works. I've function checked my M16 enough, and played around with it enough to know that this is indeed the behavior. I guess they decided it wasn't worth the required extra complexity to make the thing reset everytime you released the trigger.
Correct. Although with the M16, I believe it has a counter so if you only fire one round in 3-round burst mode, the next time you hold down the trigger, it will only shoot a max of 2 rounds, and vice versa.
You are correct.
However, H&K has a "touch it and it fires 3x!" trigger group for burst mode.