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Originally Posted by tgreening
Based ONLY on the info in the link above it would seem an electronic trigger could be made to work. In the above link it says if the trigger WHILE BEING HELD DEPRESSED allows the weapon to continue to fire until empty, it is a machine gun.
I mentioned earlier an E trigger that could be made to fire in a machine gun like fashion, but the shooter had to continuously pull and release the trigger at a certain rate to maintain the rate of fire. That doesn't quite fit the definition.
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The law says nothing about continuing to fire while the trigger is depressed. If a gun fires more than one round per individual trigger "action", it is a machine gun. This is why a 3-round burst system is still considered a machine gun. You pull the trigger and hold it back, the gun will fire 3 rounds then stop. You then need to release the trigger to start another burst.
So if you had an electronic system that fired 600 rounds per minute (10 per second) if you manually pulled the trigger 4 times a second, it would be classified as a machine gun. You are only pulling the trigger 4 times a second but 10 rounds per second are fired. More than 1 round per trigger pull equals machine gun.