[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

In all fairness, if automatics are illegal, this accelerator should too.
No-by the letter of the law, it is legal. ATF makes up their own rules as they go. They banned the Stryker shotgun, a revolving shot gun over to class three status years back. Yet, it was legal for years. Simply a long gun revolving shotgun, very cumbersome and slow to reload. Not capable of being converted to full auto.
On a side note, a shoe lace can make an AK full auto. It was demonstrated to ATF in a court proceeding. Their opinion was shoelaces should be illegal!
For those not aware, ATF makes rulings, which are not law, and then enforces them. This is what bothers me...

[MississippiMan]

For those not aware, ATF makes rulings, which are not law, and then enforces them.

EXACTLY. Despite the tragedy of this one man--being an inventor myself, I hope he finds a way to at least recoup some of his money--the underlying horror is that a group of bureaucrats have the power to tacitly create law from thin air, and then enforce it, destroying people in the process.

MM (in TX)

[TLI]

On a side note, a shoe lace can make an AK full auto. It was demonstrated to ATF in a court proceeding. Their opinion was shoelaces should be illegal! For those not aware, ATF makes rulings, which are not law, and then enforces them.

That was not just a ruling, a guy went to prison for that.

A shoelace...

and JPFO published, a letter from the ATF declaring that if a shoelace had ever been tied to the trigger of a firearm to induce the gun to fire automatically, then that shoelace itself would forever afterward be an illegal machine gun under federal law. (JPFO was accused of ridiculing the ATF by making that claim; but in fact, the ATF was the only one being ridiculous.)

[supercat]

They banned the Stryker shotgun, a revolving shot gun over to class three status years back. Yet, it was legal for years. Simply a long gun revolving shotgun, very cumbersome and slow to reload. Not capable of being converted to full auto.

The NFA'34 rules that all firearms with a bore size over 0.5" are "destructive devices" except for those deemed by the Secretary of the Treasury to be suitable for hunting or sporting purposes. Perhaps it should say those that have ever been deemed to be suitable, but it doesn't. The restrictions on "destructive devices" like the Stryker are at least consistent with statute, which is more than can be said for those on the Akins.