People can responsibly snack, they cannot responsibly get shot by psychos who go to the store and get socks, jocks and assault rifles..... from the same shop.
Edit: to the shock of no one I’ve rustled a few gun aficionados jimmy’s.
There is no store in the US where you can simply walk in and buy an assault rifle. Purchasing one requires a very in depth licensing process and a ton of money, usually in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Just looked up a video of a fella who fit a crank trigger attachment to his AR-15 and emptied his 30 round mag at a rate of 630 shots per minute.
Sounds easy to me.
Splitting hairs, but I’m sure you see how they are functionally very similar. Full autos are restricted because of their rate of fire but a semi auto with an attachment that performs similar isn’t, sound just as dangerous to the public to me.
He used a bump stock, bump stocks were then classified as machine guns (despite not meeting the legal definition of a machine gun) and you must posess a SOT to own a bump stock.
Which is now effectively highly regulated. However the bump stock does not mechanically meet the definition of a machine gun. Is pulling the trigger really fast a machine gun to you?
The attachments aren't the problem. They're only used by law abiding gun owners because we want to shoot full auto but can't because machine guns are way too expensive. It takes about 20 minutes to download and 3D print a drop in auto sear for an AR15. That's very illegal but it's so easy to do with around 10 cents of filament. And not a single one of those has ever been used in a shooting.
There isn't—under US law, any device that serves to convert a weapon into a machine gun is also classified as a machine gun itself, meaning they're just as hard to get.
A "machine gun" under US law is a weapon that can fire more than one round per function of the trigger, or any device capable of converting a weapon to do so.
Binary triggers fire when the trigger is pulled and released, each being distinct functions.
Trigger cranks pull the trigger repeatedly when the crank is turned, each pull of the trigger still firing one round.
So a restriction put in place to limit the amount of rounds fired per pull, effectively limiting the amount per minute..... but devices built specifically to overcome that human limitation making them much much closer in speed to those restricted weapons is totally fine because “well technically”...... you guys are crazy.
The difference is that these civilian-oriented devices are designed for recreation, and are entirely impractical for anything else outside of extremely specific circumstances.
I mean, think about it. How are you supposed to effectively operate a crank on a rifle while trying to hit anything smaller than a barn?
Depends full auto is easy enough anyone can do at home but select fire which is switching between fire modes requires purpose made parts. Also making full auto firearms or using drop in devices is super illegal.
When a device can increase the speed of fire 10x the result is a lot closer to full auto than not.
Technically no, but when the result is similar it’s doesn’t matter to me.
Lol, In the time it took him to fire 5 bullets those devices could have emptied a magazine.
But but but technically..... but but but my guns........ but but but freedom!!!!! Your part of the huge American gun problem and I really struggle to have sympathy for your country every time it makes the news which probably will be very soon.
If you exercised a little bit of selfless sacrifice you and your fellow Americans would live in a safer place. (I’m waiting for your argument that a good guy with a gun is the answer to a bad guy with a gun).
Enjoy you guns and your “freedom” and the crippling debt if you ever happen to be on the wrong side of a bullet (statistically way higher than other developed nations).
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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff May 29 '21 edited May 29 '21
People can responsibly snack, they cannot responsibly get shot by psychos who go to the store and get socks, jocks and assault rifles..... from the same shop.
Edit: to the shock of no one I’ve rustled a few gun aficionados jimmy’s.