Exposure
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I was watching Mythbusters this afternoon (I love that show!) and they were testing the myth about a bullet fired in a pressurized airplane and the potential for passengers to be sucked out in that scenario.
This episode has probably been rehashed here multiple times since it is an older one but today I realized that by the BATF's definition they produced a machine gun!
They rigged up an electric motor with a cam on it to actuate the trigger of a pistol. In testing the little rig went round and round and looked to me as though if attached to a semi auto it would keep firing the weapon as long as the motor was on.
BATF has ruled that devices like this are in fact illegal machine guns!
This episode has probably been rehashed here multiple times since it is an older one but today I realized that by the BATF's definition they produced a machine gun!
They rigged up an electric motor with a cam on it to actuate the trigger of a pistol. In testing the little rig went round and round and looked to me as though if attached to a semi auto it would keep firing the weapon as long as the motor was on.
BATF has ruled that devices like this are in fact illegal machine guns!