• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    9 days ago

    Americans can turn a handgun into a machine gun with a cheap piece of plastic.

    As someone who can count the number of guns I’ve ever seen on my hands, this is incredibly sensationalist. Machine guns are rifle-calibre automatic weapons with significant weight and recoil. You aren’t making one out of a handgun and some cheap piece of plastic if you are not living in Naked Gun.

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      9 days ago

      In typical American legal parlance a “machine gun” is any firearm that fires more than one round per trigger pull, so it’s more or less correct.

      I would say it is a problem when criminals have a way to magdump a police cruiser in literally under a second with a concealable weapon.

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        9 days ago

        I understand.

        Though the only piece of news that reached me recently about magdumping police cruisers, it was a cop magdumping his own car.