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/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/Erichillz 7d ago

Good thing I don't care about US law, certainly not civil law. In the military, firearms are categorised based on their respective roles. Assault rifles or battle rifles refer to firearms that are intended to be carried by a single combatant and fire short bursts, whereas machine guns are usually operated by multiple people and are used for continuous supressive fire. There's gray area of course, but this the typical distinction between machine guns and other firearms in the context of firearms manufacturing or military history. Nowhere in this thread was US law mentioned until you brought it up.

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u/jdhdowlcn 7d ago

On a side note, this would be criminal law, not civil.

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u/Erichillz 7d ago

Fair enough