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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:37:36 -0400
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On 6/26/2024 5:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v5hv3j$2aohk$2@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/25/2024 11:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <v5fulk$1uphg$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/25/2024 6:51 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <v5feln$1ns3d$4@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>     moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/25/2024 3:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <v54t46$3bnc4$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>      moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What official verbiage defines "a function of the trigger"?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just that: completion of a full cycle of function.
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>> If it's different for full-auto, why not for bump-stocks?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The definition is not different for full-auto. A full cycle of function
>>>>>>> of the trigger with an automatic rifle just produces different results
>>>>>>> than it does with a semi-auto.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But bump-stock results are the *same* as full-auto. Your consecration
>>>>>> of the almighty trigger would allow me, e.g., to affix a vibrating
>>>>>> rubber "finger" to my semi-auto...
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep. Or just pull it really fast yourself.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, what about eliminating the trigger, like BLACK SUNDAY (1977)?
>>>
>>> That flechette weapon did indeed have a trigger.
>>
>> You mean a 'button'?
> 
> The button only closed the circuit on the mechanism.

What did the "mechanism" do that made it, and nothing else, a trigger?