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/jdhdowlcn 7d ago

Um... an automatic rifle is a machine gun. And for the " we'll technically" crowd out there. This rifle could be an automatic or modified for automatic fire. But considering that 10s of thousands of dollars or a felony, I'm gonna say this is most likely a plain old semi automatic.

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u/Erichillz 7d ago

Assault rifles like the one in the video are not typically considered true machine guns even if they may be fully automatic

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u/jdhdowlcn 7d ago

Haha wtf is this comment. Let me clarify this, a machine gun under US law is any automatic firearm. Doesn't matter if it's a rifle or pistol. If there is more than one "pew per trigger pull" it's a machine gun. Assault rifle has no current legal definition.

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u/Da_Spicy_Jalapeno 7d ago

To add to your comment, it doesn't even have to be a complete firearm to be considered a machine gun. A lower receiver with an automatic fire function is considered a machine gun even though it can't actually fire a round!

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u/BonnieMcMurray 6d ago

This piece of plastic is a machine gun under US law.

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u/jdhdowlcn 6d ago

As it should be lol

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u/jdhdowlcn 7d ago

This guy knows how to tell the ATF to fuck off lol

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u/Da_Spicy_Jalapeno 7d ago

"Better luck next time, alphabet boy. I lost them all in a boating accident!"

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u/jdhdowlcn 7d ago

😆 🤣 😂 this guy gets it