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/EntertainmentAOK 7d ago

Not even an automatic rifle, most likely.

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u/Phill_is_Legend 7d ago

Any automatic rifle would be a machine gun...

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u/ACatInACloak 6d ago edited 6d ago

Depends on who you're talking to they are either the same or slightly different. Many hold the term machine gun for weapons designed solely for automatic fire. Select fire weapons are not generally considered machine guns, but generally is the original 'assult weapon' before that term started being twisted around by lawmakers to fit their agendas.

Not all automatic firing weapons are considered machine guns. All machine guns fire automatically

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u/Phill_is_Legend 6d ago

The federal and generally accepted definition of a machine gun beg to differ.

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u/BonnieMcMurray 6d ago

They (and you) can beg all they like. It's a fact that there are multiple, context-dependent definitions of "machine gun". For example, one of the four federal definitions (per the ATF) is this piece of plastic.

Is the context of this discussion "objects federally-defined as machine guns"? No, it isn't.

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u/jdhdowlcn 6d ago

Because that piece of plastic has one purpose and one intent and that is to make a semi into an automatic (machine gun)

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u/Phill_is_Legend 6d ago

It's ok to be wrong buddy.