• paprika@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    Blame it on teaching evolution, or video games, or moral decay, just whatever you do don’t blame it on how easy it is for unstable people to get a hold of machine guns.

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      1 year ago

      Uh, it’s actually very hard to get a hold of a machine gun, the grandfathered legal ones cost like $100k.

      Is that the America we want?

      Where only upper middle class have the right to Ma Deuce?

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        1 year ago

        An AR-15 with a bump stock meets all the technical requirements of a machine gun.

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          1 year ago

          A bump stock arguably makes it full auto, but it doesn’t make it a machinegun.

          Arguably the reason this thread is confused is that the word ‘machine gun’ doesn’t refer so much to physical characteristics, but more to a usage: they’re meant for sustained covering fire rather than short bursts.