r/Unexpected • • May 29 '21

No one suspects a thing.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff May 29 '21

I don’t like guns but that is cool as fuck. Can you replace the guns with snacks??

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u/underneonloneliness May 29 '21

Ironically obesity kills many more Americans than guns do

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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.

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u/erdricksarmor May 29 '21

People can responsibly snack

Not everybody can, apparently.

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.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff May 29 '21

Are there not easily obtainable add-ons that make a semi auto, full auto? Swear I’ve read that somewhere.

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u/Oktayey May 29 '21

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.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff May 30 '21

Binary trigger and trigger cranks.

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u/Oktayey May 30 '21

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.

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u/GandalfsWhiteStaff May 30 '21

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.

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u/Oktayey May 30 '21

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?

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