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Skans · February 17, 2012, 08:30 AM

An electronic button that operates multiple triggers is considered "the trigger" - think drill that causes a trigger to be depressed multiple times; the drill is the machine gun - ATF has already addressed this, before paintball was popular.

Devices that permit a gun to fire on the press and on the release of a trigger were invented many years ago - google "staple Mini-14" or read this: http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i...p/t-62411.html

People have tried to come up with many ways to get around what does and does not constitute a machine gun. The bottom line is that most are illegal or simply don't work. Every now and then something actually works. The only three things that I know of that simulate full-auto fire that are legal are: Bump-fire stock; gattling gun set-ups; "staple" thingy on a mini-14.

February 17, 2012, 08:30 AM	#17
Skans Senior Member Join Date: November 20, 2008 Posts: 11,132	An electronic button that operates multiple triggers is considered "the trigger" - think drill that causes a trigger to be depressed multiple times; the drill is the machine gun - ATF has already addressed this, before paintball was popular. Devices that permit a gun to fire on the press and on the release of a trigger were invented many years ago - google "staple Mini-14" or read this: http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/i...p/t-62411.html People have tried to come up with many ways to get around what does and does not constitute a machine gun. The bottom line is that most are illegal or simply don't work. Every now and then something actually works. The only three things that I know of that simulate full-auto fire that are legal are: Bump-fire stock; gattling gun set-ups; "staple" thingy on a mini-14.