Spats McGee
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I know the BATFE can be inconsistent, but I still haven't figured how this isn't a machine gun.
LOL!The Standard Manufacturing S333 Thunderstruck - How do you feel about it?
Spats McGee said:I know the BATFE can be inconsistent, but I still haven't figured how this isn't a machine gun.
Again! Because you are pulling essentially two triggers, operating two seperate firing pins to fire two rounds.I know the BATFE can be inconsistent, but I still haven't figured how this isn't a machine gun.
Thanks. That makes even more sense than my speculation about using two fingers.Shooting Illustrated reported, "the ATF does make an exception for "volley guns" and allows the manufacture and sale of firearms that fire more than one round with each pull of the trigger, provided that those rounds are fired from separate barrels."
First, in no way is the Thunderstruck intended as a bullseye target gun. The model number 333 is in reference to the notion that most SD uses of a firearm are within 3 feet, with 3 rounds fired in 3 seconds. The 23 Lbs is quite stiff, but with using two fingers as designed it feels like a lot less. The two finger pull is a must, and as someone who has shot a Thunderstruck, not all that hard to keep on target.23 lbs, we all probably know a few people who probably couldn't generate that much force to the trigger while remaining on-target.
I'm with the no-trigger guard / not interested crowd.
My guess is this will be the subject in several years when one of these is dropped and fires incidentally with serious injury / death as a result as there was no guard.
I kept thinking that it's got one trigger with a dingus in the middle, rather than 2 triggers. I guess not?Again! Because you are pulling essentially two triggers, operating two seperate firing pins to fire two rounds.
Is a double barrel shotgun with two triggers that can be pulled at the same time a machinegun?
Ah, that makes a lot more sense.Shooting Illustrated reported, "the ATF does make an exception for "volley guns" and allows the manufacture and sale of firearms that fire more than one round with each pull of the trigger, provided that those rounds are fired from separate barrels."
It's not altogether different than a double-barrel shotgun or a derringer that fires both barrels. There are other volley guns like the nock-gun, duckfoot pistol, and organ guns, although most of those have only been produced prior to cartridges.
Regardless what anybody thinks of the Thunderstruck it is good to see people finding loopholes in the unconstitutional restrictions put on firearms by government bureaucrats!
Shooting Illustrated reported, "the ATF does make an exception for "volley guns" and allows the manufacture and sale of firearms that fire more than one round with each pull of the trigger, provided that those rounds are fired from separate barrels."
I think that was the delay, and ultimate redesign of their original province stol, the Volley Fire. It had a single trigger which fired two rounds with a single pull.
My speculation is that because even though the two trigger sections are in one piece, it is nearly impossible to fire the Thunderstruck without pulling on both trigger sections. Making it two pulls, all be it simultaneously, to fire two rounds.