Oh I think I know how this will end.

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    “We were going to win this,” said the former senior ATF official. “These things are not like bump stocks."

    Forced reset devices are actually exactly like bump stocks in that they’re legal because they force a distinct action of the trigger for every round fired. The legal definition of a machine gun is a firearm that fires more than one round per single action of the trigger. They haven’t bothered to amend or expand that definition, so these types of devices keep skirting by on a technicality.

    I suppose the argument could be made that forced reset devices work in a very similar way to a machine gun’s auto sear, the difference being that they act on the trigger of the gun rather than the hammer, but it still doesn’t meet the government’s own definition of a machine gun.

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    Before I read the article, I’m going to go with “bump stocks” as the device. Let’s find out if I’m right…

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      Nope although they do get a mention. Apparently in this case it’s forced reset triggers. Saying they allow a semi-auto gun to fire like a full-auto is a bit of a stretch though, even more so than for a bump stock.

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      Well, they literally have a force feedback loop of propaganda aimed at themselves 24/7.

      They think they own all 500 million guns in the US and they are all John J Rambo

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      That’s a select fire switch which is a little different.

      What this is about are Hellfire Triggers which are impossible to control. If you know what one looks like, you can make it yourself.

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    The history on this is interesting

    Trump banned bump stocks as a reaction to the Vegas massacre.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-issues-rule-banning-bump-stocks-year/story?id=59884493

    Then the supreme court ruled that unconstitutional.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/06/14/g-s1-2929/supreme-court-bump-stocks

    Now the trump admin is going to permit more things like the bump stock to be sold legally. Specifically, something that makes a semi automatic gun fire much more rapidly.

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      No suppressor, no super long mags, no belt feed, no barrel mounted grenade launcher, no incendiary rounds.

      What is and what is not legal is funny in the US

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        I’m commenting from New Zealand where we have real restrictions on semi rifles, but can own as many suppressors as we like