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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 5th Circuit Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 22:06:51 -0400
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On 6/20/24 9:47 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v52ki8$2qv7o$2@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/19/24 9:10 PM, shawn wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:28:26 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <v4vh5f$258cf$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Machine gun:
>>>>>
>>>>> "...any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily
>>>>> restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual
>>>>> reloading, by a single function of the trigger."
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, tell me again how either gun in my video doesn't qualify...
>>>>
>>>> Because with the bump stock, it's only firing one shot per pull of the
>>>> trigger. The trigger is just being pulled repeatedly really fast as a
>>>> result of rebounding recoil caused by the bump stock. The bumper rocks
>>>> the rifle back and forth against the shooter's trigger finger, causing a
>>>> separate trigger pull each time. The statute you quoted above clearly
>>>> says "by a SINGLE function of the trigger". If you shoot 100 rounds with
>>>> a bump stock, you've got 100 functions of the trigger, not a single
>>>> function of the trigger.
>>>
>>> Yes, you are definitely technically correct. (The best kind.) That
>>> said you can see why people consider the bump stock to be the
>>> equivalent of turning a weapon into an equal to a machine gun. It
>>> isn't a machine gun but it ends throwing lead down field much like
>>> one. I think eventually the law will be updated to include bump stocks
>>> but who knows how long that will take. As no one who was involved in
>>> writing the original act likely foresaw the possibility of a bump
>>> stock.
>>>
>> Both still require the same action. A single trigger pull, with
>> constant pressure.
> 
> Which isn't the standard under the law. The law's standard is a "single
> function of the trigger". As I said above, if you shoot 100 rounds with
> a bump stock, you've got 100 functions of the trigger, not a single
> function of the trigger.
> 
> A semi-auto rifle physically can't fire more than one round with a
> single function of the trigger. It's impossible for a semi-auto rifle to
> meet the definition of "machine gun" under the NFA.
> 

You keep glossing over the fact that both machine guns and bump stocks 
require the same action.

Why?

Both require a single trigger pull followed by constant pressure.
The only difference is in the mechanics.

The intent of the law was to prevent people from possessing a weapon 
that could spray a great number of bullets indiscriminately.

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