Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moviePig Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:40:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <17d91fbd5fad865f$338100$533214$2d54864@news.newsdemon.com> <17d9412e82a8a311$8843$3053472$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Reply-To: nobody@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:40:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d2d90a48413b38a40b2d22a00d23c588"; logging-data="2057776"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZTK6UI4unwA106nbG8WXCXCGh56T8J7g=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:utNpqmqtUdKIcMKO93ioqXmnoP8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3637 On 6/25/2024 6:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > moviePig wrote: > >> On 6/25/2024 3:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>> moviePig wrote: >>> >>>> On 6/21/2024 12:59 AM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , FPP >>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> How are they substantively different, counselor? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> One's trigger is functioned only once, the other's trigger functions for >>>>>>> every round fired. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Nope. Same single function. >>>>> >>>>> Literally not. The firing mechanism inside the gun requires the trigger >>>>> go through its full cycle of function (depressed, released, and reset) >>>>> for every round fired in a semi-auto rifle. It's only activated once for >>>>> an entire burst in a machine gun. >>>> >>>> In both machine gun and bump-stock, the trigger cycle "consults" the >>>> shooter's finger during each cycle. If there's pressure it fires, if >>>> not it stops. For the shooter the guns are *functionally* identical. >>> >>> Which might be relevant if the NFA regulated firearms in any way, shape, >>> or form based on what it's like for the shooter. It does not therefore >>> it is not. >> >> You think "single function of the trigger" doesn't entail the shooter's >> experience of it? > > No, it doesn't. You mean, "Yes I do." And you'd be wrong to suppose that a "trigger function" doesn't imply the sensate action of a conscious shooter.