r/interestingasfuck • u/AdministrativeMud907 • 7d ago

A girl saves her boyfriend from a robbery by pointing a machine gun at two armed robbers.(Texas) r/all

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u/No_Ice_7361 7d ago

Machine gun?

That's just a rifle my dude.

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u/CornCutieNumber5 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not much of a difference. Full-auto guns are legal now, thanks to the Supreme Court. You just gotta make sure the repeating function is on the trigger instead of the action.

Gun nut bait: achieved.

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u/VirginiaHardcore 7d ago

I just don't really see what difference it makes. No one seriously looking to use their gun to hurt anyone is using a bumpstock anyway . They're not very practical for anything other than causal shooting . Pretty much anyone who's ever experienced any combat ever will tell you that semi-auto is way better than full anyway. Full is widely inaccurate and you burn through your magazine way quicker. The bumpstock is a novelty item at best and isn't going to be used by anyone for anything other than having fun .

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u/lou_skunt69 7d ago

I’ve never seen someone be so confidently wrong. U.S. Supreme Court overturns ban on bump stocks used in Las Vegas mass shooting

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u/VirginiaHardcore 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yeah crazy man . The Vegas shooter had like 30 guns in his hotel, and a couple of them had bumpstocks on them. lol must mean that's where the majority of the casualties came from . But thanks for providing a link to an article I already read before making my statement, lol . I just used my normal brain and realized that a singular incident doesn't really provide a pattern of violence that justifies a belief that banning bumpstocks makes the average citizen safer. There's 100 other things we could do for gun laws if that was the goal .

Go ahead and throw me another article of bumpstock violence if you can . Shit if you can find me 3 more I'll retract my statement and declare you king of reddit.

I've never seen someone so quick to tell someone they're confidently wrong, providing a single piece of evidence .

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u/king_qthai 7d ago

Literally one incident in history of a bump stock being used. And news flash, you can bump fire a gun, without a bump stock

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u/lou_skunt69 7d ago

Jesus Christ! He said “no one”. I presented an example of one. It sounds like you’re saying bumps stocks don’t serve a purpose and you can get the same result without one. Cool! Let’s get rid of them then.

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u/king_qthai 7d ago edited 7d ago

On what basis? That's like saying, "Let's ban cars, because you can jus walk to work."

On average, just today, 100 people have died in a car accident in the United States. But you wanna use a single incident to ban a piece of plastic? He's not wrong in one sense. Bump stocks are inherently inaccurate

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u/lou_skunt69 7d ago

Accuracy doesn’t matter when you’re firing into a crowd.

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u/king_qthai 7d ago

That, we can agree on. Which would fall under circumstances and not of the equipment.

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u/GimpboyAlmighty 7d ago

Friendly reminder that bump stocks fire at a different rate than the observed fire rate on the mass shooting video.

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u/lou_skunt69 7d ago

Interesting. How fast can someone fire with a bump stock? There are other instructional videos on YouTube that show a similar fire rate.

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u/GimpboyAlmighty 7d ago

Tops out around 600rpm because of mechanical limits in the buffer tube. You'd have to perform modifications that are incompatible with a bump stock to accomplish this. The bump stock operates largely on recoil impulse and anything that changes the rof changes that impulse.

That rate of fire matches an M249 SAW though. Maybe an M4, since you don't rely on recoil impulse to reset the trigger. Honestly if the police reported an illegal lightning link in those rifles, it would track. But bump fire and forced reset devices will slow down the rate of fire below what was observed.

What does that mean? No clue, other than I am suspicious of the official story.

My favorite theory is that it was a hit on a Saudi prince gone bad and covered up. Not because it absolves anybody of anything, but because it sounds like exactly the kind of cover up a wealthy person and the FBI could manage compared to the absolutely insane ones I usually see.

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u/lou_skunt69 7d ago

Ah, fuck. I’m sorry. When I asked for more info I didn’t know you were one of those. As you were!

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u/GimpboyAlmighty 7d ago

Shit bro, that's cold.