Not sure I understand
There's no picture of an automatic rifle in front of a school.
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Varmint, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 16:10,
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There was one but the NRA
took it down as it had a Kalashnikov on it and not a "Gen U wine AR15"
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 16:44,
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Didn't you know AKs are all the rage now?
All it took was the slightest whiff that all imports may be banned, and suddenly every conservative gun nut wants one. I sometimes think the slow slide into theocratic nationalism could probably be halted by just telling conservatives that the government is banning voting for liberal candidates.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 19:08,
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Yeah it's a play by the manufacturers.
Get somebody to pass a story to the media that (insert gun here) is going to be banned and sales skyrocket. Personally I reckon all those AR's are firmly in the hands of the "spray and pray" brigade and most likely owned by morons who don't know what a fire selector switch is let alone a safety.
Nah, give me a trusty old reliable 1911 and a bog standard rifle with a couple of bottles of whiskey in case it all goes tits up :)
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 20:00,
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Aren’t AKs already banned?
I was under the impression that there haven’t been any new automatics on the market for decades; if you want an automatic you need a special license and someone willing to sell.
I don’t really know TBH, I get most of gun knowledge from Ian McCullom and being a Brit I’m not all that interested in the legal side.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 6 Jul 2022, 23:33,
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In some states I think they are allowed (probably texas) and yeah his channel is one I watch a lot
as well as Demolition Ranch, Garand Thumb, Kentucky ballistics etc. an "unhealthy interest" in firearms I was told by a friend but those channels are quite entertaining and novel to watch especially from over here in the UK where we just dont have the amount of weaponry they have. (legally anyway)
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 0:49,
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A full auto is a machine gun
I don't think there is anywhere that you can own one in the US without several hoops. You also can't buy a new one, so the very few that are available command an hefty price.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 2:20,
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ACTUALLY...
Every Machine Gun is full-auto, but not every gun capable of full-auto is a Machine Gun.
If it has a limited burst or single-shot firing switch, it's (almost certainly) not a Machine Gun. I believe the AK-47 has a semi-auto firing mode, which would put it firmly into Automatic Rifle territory.
I'm being a total Pedant, though. Because, as you rightly state, it's rather difficult and costly to legally obtain and operate a fully automatic weapon. The US Government are quite rightly concerned about how potentially dangerous these weapons could be in the wrong hands, compared to - oh, I dunno - a weapon where you need to pull the trigger every time you want to inflict grievous damage on another human being.
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You seem to be the only person here who understands the difference.
According to Wikipedia, Title 2 defines a machine gun as, "Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger."
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An Egg ,D, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 19:51,
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The quotation marks are theirs.
They are quoting Title 2.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 22:49,
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I've sampled some of those, but prefer FW.
My interest is in how they work rather than what they're used for, so naturally I prefer watching Ian take something apart without any loud background music. Truth be told I seldom watch his videos on the range because I find the whole thing rather silly, though I would still pay real money to see him play around with a G11.
Demolition (and Vet) Ranch were fun for a while, but mainly because of the tight shirts.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 4:54,
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That mad Russian (who wasn't a Russian)
Was fun for a while until he got busted. (as did a few others like American Guns) The rest tend to fall into a spectrum ranging from entertainment to mind numbing extreme geekery (sort of from FPS Russia to Wilson Combat) and I would be more of a machine mind as opposed to "go bang kill" as well
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TBL I posted this on, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 12:01,
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An AR-15 isn't automatic. It is not a military rifle. It looks like one.
The M-16 and M4 were developed from it by the US military. They are now abandoning it for a more lethal weapon.
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An Egg ,D, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 1:33,
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yeah, it's not a military rifle.
I mean apart from the 100,000 or so AR 15s that were used by soldiers in vietnam
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 3:09,
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It can be made nearly as rapid as fully automatics with bump stock
- I think those are still legal, and they increase rate of fire up to abot 4-500 rpm
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 7 Jul 2022, 7:06,
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