How to repeatedly shoot while button is held down

So i want to make it so my character shoots every half a second while the shoot button is held down, and stop shooting after it's released, but what happens is when i hit the shoot button, it shoots every half a second for infinity, and i can't get it to stop. I tried a different method(i forget what) and it just started the loop over every tick while the button is held down. How do i fix this?
Thank you for your time!

Use a custom event instead of a loop that triggers when the button is down  and after half a second if the button is still down trigger it again

Something like this should do it.

Thanks!

Is there a problem that this keeps on creating new threads every 1/60 second?
One needs to be careful when using timed-delays.

Maybe just create custom event for key-pressed (and released), which triggers the loop (which has the delay in it).
So you can be sure, that only one thread is created.

Use an input event and the create actor block. I feel that it’ll be pretty self explanatory from there (if not I’ll be more than happy to help you.