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/swift_strongarm 7d ago

Yep this is your standard run of the mill semiautomatic rifle. 

Not a machine gun as it doesn't fire multiple rounds per trigger pull. 

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u/swagseven13 6d ago

so any full auto gun is a machine gun by that definition?

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u/Vektor0 6d ago

No, that's not what he said. He didn't say that all fully-automatic guns are machine guns; he said that all machine guns are fully-automatic.

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u/swift_strongarm 6d ago edited 6d ago

Correct, for instance pre 1986 auto sears and automatic weapons while classified as machine guns are exempt under antiques, curios, and replicas. 

You do have to register them and pay a $200 tax to the ATF to make it legal.  

But essentially you can install a pre 1986 autosear into a brand new AR-15 and it converts it into a pre-1986 transferable automatic firearm.  

Now folk who have these know what they have so be prepared with at least 20k for your purchase.  

A chainfed gatling gun isn't considered a machine gun either. 

Short barrel rifles are restricted because the NFA was originally written to restrict anything with a barrel smaller than 18". 

The handgun lobby lobbied to have it removed from the bill successfully, which defeats the whole purpose of restricting the sale of small concealed firearms. 

Which is why...fun fact...the vast majority of mass shootings are done with.... semiautomatic.... handguns; the vast majority of crime... semiautomatic handguns.

Later the federal government had to further alter the NFA because they can't even follow their own laws and made criminals out of Americans by selling millions of WW2 surplus rifles with 16" barrels to civilians.