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/BonnieMcMurray 6d ago

Let me clarify this, a machine gun under US law

That doesn't clarify anything. You're implicitly making the argument that the definition under US law is inherently authoritative for the purposes of this discussion. But it isn't. That's just you deciding that it should be.

Someone else deciding that the consensus definition preferred by firearms historians should be authoritative would have an argument of exactly equal weight.

Given that one definition of "machine gun" under US law is this piece of plastic, I personally think that their choice of authority is lot more meaningful and useful to this discussion than yours.

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u/jdhdowlcn 6d ago

Except that this is in the US under US law, let keep the definitions within the context of what we're discussing?

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u/BonnieMcMurray 6d ago

You know that scene in Spinal Tap where Nigel is showing Marti how his amp's volume goes to 11 and Marti says why don't you just make 10 a little louder, and then there's a long pause where you can almost see the gears inside Nigel's head grinding together while he desperately tries to make sense of what Marti just said, before he finally replies, "These go to 11"?

Your post is exactly like that.