Fundamental misunderstanding continues. The G18 achieves auto fire differently than a G17 with a switch does. The trigger bar isn't "held down" in either case, though.
If holding down the trigger bar is all that was required, you wouldn't need a switch at all.
The G46 has the same dastardly trigger bar that works in the same dastardly way. Making a switch for a G46 wouldn't be fundamentally different than making one for a G17. But don't worry, New Jersey says the G46 is cool.
This is so unbelievably dumb. Mind numbingly so.
Me whenever I don't know how springs work. Me when I'm the master of Glock knowing. Me when I'm a lawyer getting paid to lawsuit and I just make stuff up.
If "remaining lowered" is all that it took, why don't Glocks go full auto if you assemble them without the trigger bar at all? Permanently lowered if it isn't installed. Shutting the slide should rip the whole mag, right?
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Remember that time when the US Army designed a civilian version of the M14, sold it to civilians, and a few years later the ATF came along and decided they were machineguns?
Here's the story of the M14 NM.
Most are already familiar with the M14 - it's the disfavored stepchild of US military rifles, and it's shortcomings left it as a stopgap between the M1 Garand of WW2 and Korea and the AR-15s the US military has used since.
Development of what would become the M14 started early - before WW2 even ended, the US Army was experimenting with M1 Garands that had box magazines and select fire capability. I won't get into the details here, but bureaucracy resulted in this development to take a decade.
Perhaps the greatest damage the Hughes Amendment did to gun rights advocacy is by making room for the current "machinegun zeitgeist" to exist.
Allow me to over-explain: 🧵
Passed in 1986, the Firearms Owner Protection Act (FOPA) was staged to be a massive victory for gun rights - establishing a way for guns and ammo to travel interstate, even in states that restrict or ban their sale/possession. This allowed ammo to by mailed as well.
However, antigun democrats hated the idea that your rights might be respected - and wanted to kill FOPA. In an attempt to stall its passing, a senator named William Hughes proposed an amendment to FOPA that would ban new machineguns (except for sale to cops/gov).
The original buffer for the AR15 was extremely lightweight - about 1.8oz. By comparison, the modern rifle buffer is about 5.1oz. A difference of about 3oz doesn't sound like much, but actually represents a ~20% increase in the reciprocating mass of the rifle. Which is very significant.
The edgewater buffer (actually listed as a spring guide in parts lists) was meant to cushion the impact of the bolt on its rearward stroke by using a series of stacked discs. However, when exposed to rain or debris, the rings could stick together, and the spring guide would become a rigid post instead.
Compared to even modern compact buffers (carbine buffers are about double the weight), the Edgewater buffer was never a very good design. Rather complex, liable to stop working, and frankly didn't weight enough in the first place. Once the US military was forced to consider different powders for loading 223 (the original IMR powder wasn't consistent enough to let them get the velocity they wanted without the risk of overpressure), they settled on Olin ball powder - which increased the gas port pressure by about 1000psi (~7%). This increase exposed the limits of the edgewater buffer - guns cycled much faster than with IMR, which caused issues. Typically, these issues were dead triggers (due to bolt bounce in full auto), parts breakage, and failures for the bolt to lock back after the mag was empty.
Where did .223 Remington (the AR-15s adopted cartridge) come from? Was it designed to wound? Is it a meat-cooking elephant killer? Let's take a look at the history and see what it tells us! 🧵
223's history dates back quite a ways, but in the interest of clarity, I'll leave out some of the details of early military experiments with small caliber rounds, and start with the "Small Caliber High Velocity" (SCHV) program.
This program was a sort of follow-on to a program known as SALVO, but has roots back before SALVO as well. You can think of them as contemporaries, but with SCHV learning at lot from certain aspects of SALVO.
Guntubers when they haven't posted an illegally imported gun in a week
Gun import laws shouldn't exist, not even for sanctioned countries, but unfortunately they do and the relevant three letter agencies care way too much about monitoring this sort of thing.
As much as everyone loves those SDI ads and whatever else leviathan has y'all shilling, it probably doesn't pay well enough to be worth you being the next example.
Dang judge, you really think so? Well you said it, not me!
It's pretty delusional to read. The judge agrees that ARs and LCMs are common. Stays pretty quiet about lawful use. Decided that because of mass shootings ARs can be banned based on laws that regulated the carry of bowie knives.