• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    mechanically activating a trigger rapidly with a motor activated with a single button press would be legal.

    I believe it is. So are crank triggers, which clamp on to your trigger guard and click the trigger for you 2/3/4 times per revolution.

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      6 months ago

      Which by any logical definition makes the crank (or the bumpstock) the trigger, since it is what is used to trigger the mechanics of the weapon.

      I guess there i some precedent where a thing attached to a gun doesn’t count as part of the gun?

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        6 months ago

        I ain’t bringing logic into it, I’m just pointing out how the law has been interpreted.

        Attaching things to guns that enable fully automatic fire as it is defined by the law, i.e. more than one shot per activation of the trigger, do count, though. This includes things such as full auto sear or those fucking “Glock switches” that are so popular these days.

        With a crank trigger you have to keep cranking it to keep firing, like an old wild west Gatling gun. You can’t just hold it down and the gun dumps the magazine on its own. A bump stock aids the user in rapidly pressing the trigger over and over again. You can bump fire a rifle even without a bump stock if you are sufficiently practiced or skilled.