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Dave Yell's avatar

With a bump stock, AR-15 is the choice of mass shooters. It is a machine gun that is very accurate.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

You don't need to be too accurate with a machine gun..

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Dave Yell's avatar

Precisely. And AR-15 with a bump stock is like a machine gun with deadly accuracy.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

From what I remember reading, machine guns are illegal for John/Mary Doe to own/buy. The argument I always see is that the AR-15 isn't technically a machine gun.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Eva, I looked up the firing rate per minute of an AR -15 with a bump stock. It is 400 to 800 per minute. Which is basically 13 to 26 per second. That sounds pretty potent to me. That is why they never should be allowed for civilians to have them legally. I didn't realized that rate would be that high.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Yup, but that "wonderful" SC said bump stocks were okay. When Harris gets elected, along, I pray with a blue wave in both Houses, she increases the size of the SC to 13 (to match the district courts) and starts in on banning assault weapons as they had when Reagan was shot.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Why it was allowed to expire on assault rifles is puzzling.I always wondered why Democrats have never enlisted law enforcement. Not many police chiefs endorse civilians having them.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

Expired under Bush 2, apparently it had a sunset clause, which was stupid.

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