Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:17:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:17:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="753aacc27330e1759efaf63ca1b36a2d"; logging-data="2075322"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198/TCxgDXBqzKSnJXcJKHVv0p7NniuJq0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:w4TmNVSrcWvJgjQG5zOUWuRn7zU= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2694 BTR1701 wrote: >moviePig wrote: >>On 6/25/2024 6:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>moviePig wrote: >>>>On 6/25/2024 3:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>moviePig wrote: >>>>>>On 6/21/2024 12:59 AM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>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." >You keep telling me what I mean, but I assure you, Kreskin, that if I >mean something I write it. If it's not in what I've written, it's not >what I mean. I think trying to get moviePig to comprehend that anyone would ever say exactly what he means, in clear and concise language, is beyond his powers of comprehension.