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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 months agoUh, it’s actually very hard to get a hold of a machine gun, the grandfathered legal ones cost like $100k.
Is that the America we want?
Where only upper middle class have the right to Ma Deuce?
paprika@infosec.pub 8 months ago
An AR-15 with a bump stock meets all the technical requirements of a machine gun.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A bump stock arguably makes it full auto, but it doesn’t make it a machinegun.
Arguably the reason this thread is confused is that the word ‘machine gun’ doesn’t refer so much to physical characteristics, but more to a usage: they’re meant for sustained covering fire rather than short bursts.
JustZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are being under federal law because of the machine gun statute.