Misstreeshot
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7 items you won't believe are legal-
A new gun to add to the collection- if you can find one!
A new gun to add to the collection- if you can find one!
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Unfortunately, there are only something like eleven civilian-legal miniguns in the USA. Most of them are in private hands, but one occasionally comes back up on the market. The going rate for your average minigun is around $400,000. But that's not the only expense you'll have. The minigun will require an extensive mounting system. Contrary to what you have heard, firing one of these by yourself would lead to severe blunt trauma, and a huge machine gun shooting wildly into the air. It's also going to be expensive to feed: one second of firing the minigun will set you back about sixty bucks. That's $3600 for a full minute of shooting.
Yes but it fires more than one round per function of the trigger (button), just like if you hooked up an electric drill to a crank operated gun like a gatlingIf I understand the operating principle correctly, it is not an automatic weapon. Each cartridge is individually, mechanically fired, using the same priniciple as a Gatling gun - just very fast.
If I understand the operating principle correctly, it is not an automatic weapon. Each cartridge is individually, mechanically fired, using the same priniciple as a Gatling gun - just very fast.
But I'm sure the ATF would classify the DeWalt (or pick your brand) drill as an NFA item as soon as they saw it work. Kind of like that stock years ago for the 10/22 that aided in bump firing.
With 500 dollars and a couple 10-22's you to can have a Gatlin gun!
The thing that makes it a machinegun is not electricity,
Generally, a Gatling type hand crank operated firearm, having a
bore diameter of 1/2-inch or less, as produced under the patents of
1862-1893, employing a cam action to accomplish the functions of
repeat cocking, firing, and ejecting, in a caliber for which
ammunition is commercially available, and manufactured after 1898,
would be classified as a "firearm" as defined in Title 18 United
States Code (U.S.C.), Chapter 44, section 921(a)(3), Title I of the
GCA.
A Gatling gun as described in the preceding paragraph and using an
electric motor to fire the weapon instead of hand cranking, would
be classified as a "firearm" and a "machinegun" as defined in Title
26 U.S.C., Chapter 53, section 5845(b), the NFA.
Electrically driven machineguns such as the M-134 Minigun are
firearms and machineguns subject to the provisions of the NFA.
Frames or receivers of such weapons are also machineguns regardless
of whether or not other components are present.