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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
Just saw this, IMO it's a bad idea. If James Holmes had used something like this, the media would have said he had an automatic fire weapon. Second Amendment owners are adequate about there being regulations tha make semi-automatic firearms difficult to convert into automatic-fire capability and any firearm that can easily be converted is considered an automatic weapon.
This type of gizmo undoes that whole argument. IMO there's two ways to define automatic fire:
1) The conventional definition of a semi-auto versus full-auto gun
2) A gun that can fire bullets in rapid succession
This fits number two. That it "technically" is a semi-auto that has a few modifications to let the trigger be pulled very quickly to simulate full-auto I think is inviting too much trouble for the gun community. The way the media will portray it is that it's an automatic fire weapon that only exists due to a loophole in the law (which is probably to a good degree true). Gun companies that create such a product I think are setting the industry up for more hurt then help when someone like a James Holmes decides to get one of these and start shooting up a crowd somewhere.
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Do you have the experience to tell us that you think he would have hit more people on full-auto with a bump stock than with aimed semi-auto fire?
Too late for the media. Every shooting involving a semi-auto of any description is immediately an automatic weapon, a fully automatic weapon, or a machinegun.
And pretty much any semi-auto rifle, other than an AK-47, is called an AK-47.
TR
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