legal "select-fire" option?

[tank mechanic]

CoRoMo:

Question: How do you get a pro-RKBA/2nd Amendment advocate to sound like a Brady Org. anti?

Answer:
Show a whimsical interest in full auto, burst or bump fire. It never fails, you'll be told that it is impractical, dangerous, immature, boorish, useless and too difficult for a lowly civilian like yourself to administer. Pretty much word for word why Sarah Brady thinks you shouldn't own a handgun

That was an awesome reply. It really is sad how often that happens here.

Zoogster:

Put ownership of firearms in general out of reach of most people and within a generation or two most people will support extreme restrictions

That is incredibly true and there is ample proof of this every time one of these threads pop up. I would assume members of a gun forum would be for freedom and individual rights, but as soon as a right is taken away even gun forum members will demonize it.

 

[Cosmoline]

An interesting idea, but it sounds like a million dollar lawsuit to me. Once the first shot is fired you're stuck with the second. Not good.

There are ways around this problem, but by then you really haven't added any speed over the traditional trigger.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

And it would be good for what?

Making noise, burning up expensive ammo at double the normal rate, and missing with the second shot every time?

I had an AR15 where the sear wore out. It would fire on the pull and then on the release. I found that the second shots very accurate in slow fire and that I could land both on a human silhouette at 100 yards with a quick pull and release.

As for having to fire the second shot, it wasn't terribly practical, but functional to simply pull the bolt out of battery with the charging handle.

The gun has now been fixed.

 

[9teenEleven]

But then again, the ATF letter stated 'single action of the trigger'. Such a modification would allow triburst-like action with a single pull of the trigger, thus rendering it a MG.

Actually, it says a single function of the trigger, which is it seems to me a multi stage trigger would be multiple functions.

 

[sv51macross]

Maybe, 9teen, but I'm not too keen on a judge deciding the difference between function and action, especially with ATF bearing down on everyone. If they're willing to fudge a FAL into slamfire and then block the defense's expert witness...

 

[NMGonzo]

meh ... I rather get better at pulling a fine tuned trigger accurately downrange.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

The ATF response defines the machine gun as more than one bullet for more than one function of the trigger, not one pull of the trigger. What if the time and space between each action is really short?

Careful. That letter was written in 2004, before the ATF decided to change their interpretation of "single function" when the Akins Accellerator came out, which was basically a stock made for bumpfiring. Quite a few folks are stuck with $1,000 10/22 stocks that no longer work, or posession of an unregistered MG (if they didn't send the spring in). I don't think they like it when people find loopholes in NFA laws.