Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Gun control groups condemned the move as “a dangerous backroom deal spearheaded by Trump’s general counsel” that “effectively legalized machine guns.”
Oh I think I know how this will end.
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Full auto weapons should be legal. Only idiots think full auto weapons are more dangerous. If someone is going to try using full auto during a crime all that will happen is the weapon will pull to the side and expend all it's ammo in a few seconds. There is a reason why the military changed to semi auto/burst rifles as the standard.
Hey cool, the magazine will be empty before people can get to safety!
The mag will be empty and there is no way possible that they hit anything that was being shot at. People that think fully auto weapons are easy to fire have never even seen one fired in real life. After 2-3 rounds it is already pulling to the side. They are not just inaccurate, they are impossible to shoot accurately.
Your argument only really holds water against a single target. Go full auto in a stadium and let the recoil take you to the top rows. Accuracy won't matter
Go full auto in a stadium and it will pull up and you will shoot the ceiling, or it will pull down and you will shoot the ground and maybe your leg. You might get lucky and it will lurch to the right, you will either fight it to get it back to the center or let it spin you like a top. By the time you have fought the autofire back to center it will have chosen a new direction to pull ... good luck. You will do this 2-3 times and then the clip will be empty.
Life is not a movie or videogame. Autofire really sucks ass unless you are an absolute pro at it and have a great deal of practice. Those who would put in that much practice with auto fire would be smart enough to realize that 3 shot bursts are way more accurate and waste far less ammo.
so... higher rate of fire and less accuracy, and therefore higher chance to hit things other than the intended target ie bystanders. yeah you'd have to be an idiot to view that as being more dangerous 🙄 jfc dude read your own words and sit with them for thirty seconds.
It is what it is. Automatic weapons are not something many people understand and a very rare few have actually ever fired.
Not many people can consider themselves familiar on automatic weapons.You don't even get to use them in the military. You needed to have been in the military before they introduced the M16 A2. The military phased out auto fire on their standard weapon because it was an inaccurate waste of ammo that just was not very lethal when compared to a trained marksman using 3 shot burst or single shot semi auto firing.
You are picturing a person firing into a crowd and missing their target, but hitting everyone else. Nope. They would auto fire thinking they would move back and forth, but it won't do it. The rifle will immediately pull in a random direction, the person will then have to pull to correct ... which almost always leads to the weapon firing up in the air or down at the ground.
It's just something that you have to do to understand. I happen to be a veteran that was in service with the M16 A1 and got auto firing as part as basic rifle marksmanship (BRM). I'm not really going to argue on it much more, anyone that has fired an automatic weapon will agree ... it's just an ammo wasting novelty.
An automatic weapon has to be on a tripod to be somewhat practical and slightly more controllable or on a mounted turrent to be actually useful.
idgaf which country you sold your soul to, arguing that a firearm that can't be aimed isn't more dangerous than others is a fucking delusional take, one hundred percent of my gun-toting friends including all the vets agree with me, you apparently think lead fucking dissolves in air after a few hundred yards, and I sorely hope you aren't allowed firearms in your possession.
No, your "gun toting friends" don't agree with you.
A shooter using an automatic weapon that pulls to one side, pulls up into the air, or pulls down and shoots the ground (or the person's leg) is far less dangerous that a shooter that uses the same amount of ammo in controlled three shot bursts or single shots.
Again. Argue with the military. This is why they no longer issue automatic rifles as standard.
if after being in the military and working with guns in a professional capacity you're willing to argue that the only kind of danger a firearm can pose is to the intended target even as you describe the potential to shoot oneself accidentally, even as you describe shots going wild in a crime scenario in a presumably populated area with bystanders in every direction, i don't know what to do but conclude that you are either a) deeply mentally unwell or b) a liar who thinks the world operates on video game logic.
You are just trolling at this point. Arguing to argue and not even comprehending what you are even arguing about.
I'm going to block you. Full auto fire is simply less dangerous, it is so inaccurate that hitting something just comes down to luck. If full auto weapon fire was more dangerous then the army would still have them on the standard issue rifle. It's just that simple. 40 rounds fired from a full auto weapon may hit 4-5 targets tops. 40 rounds fired in single shots from a semi auto will result in 23 targets hit from a basic marksman, 30 for a sharpshooter, and 36 for an expert.