Ignition Override
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Let's forget 'bump fire' for a moment.
Normal AR-15s can suffer a slam-fire, which reportedly fires several rounds Like a full-auto.
A guy in WI loaned a guy his AR, and took it to a range where it had a slam-fire. An article linked somewhere describes the situation.
Somebody told the ATF about it, and at the trial the ATF was against allowing a firearms expert to be a witness to the possibility of a very rare slam-fire.
The judge sided with the ATF and the AR's owner is in federal prison for a few years in MN (unless he won an appeal). I read the article.
Maybe the device is perfectly legal in some states, but would it be a very lonely feeling when you are in trouble for something which other people are not charged with?
This might be extreme, but you could not pay me a million dollars to use such a device, unless a signed document from high-level ATF bureaucrats confirms the legality.
As with the FAA, the ATF sometimes randomly prosecutes people in order to justify their own existence, and that of the top federal appointees
(nominated by the President) who run these departments. They have done so to prove that those who allegedly violate regulations and laws are punished, trying to justify the vastly over-bloated budgets each year.
Look at what happened to the guy transporting his handgun in NJ.
Those were state rules, but the ATF's regulations by comparison do not appear to be clear.
Normal AR-15s can suffer a slam-fire, which reportedly fires several rounds Like a full-auto.
A guy in WI loaned a guy his AR, and took it to a range where it had a slam-fire. An article linked somewhere describes the situation.
Somebody told the ATF about it, and at the trial the ATF was against allowing a firearms expert to be a witness to the possibility of a very rare slam-fire.
The judge sided with the ATF and the AR's owner is in federal prison for a few years in MN (unless he won an appeal). I read the article.
Maybe the device is perfectly legal in some states, but would it be a very lonely feeling when you are in trouble for something which other people are not charged with?
This might be extreme, but you could not pay me a million dollars to use such a device, unless a signed document from high-level ATF bureaucrats confirms the legality.
As with the FAA, the ATF sometimes randomly prosecutes people in order to justify their own existence, and that of the top federal appointees
(nominated by the President) who run these departments. They have done so to prove that those who allegedly violate regulations and laws are punished, trying to justify the vastly over-bloated budgets each year.
Look at what happened to the guy transporting his handgun in NJ.
Those were state rules, but the ATF's regulations by comparison do not appear to be clear.
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