Let's review......AT A FIRING RANGE.
I guess I need to turn myself in then cause I shoot my Sigs & kimber pistols as fast as I can pull the trigger.
Look - if the feds ever arrest you for something, just say you are illegal.
You will be released immediately and 15 organizations will rush in to give you aid and money.
Bang
How long until “bump firing” is illigal?
And anti-gunners wonder why we are so paranoid.
Who was the kind person at the range who turned him in?
“It didn’t matter the rifle in question had not been intentionally modified for select fire, or that it did not have an M16 bolt carrier or sear, that it did not show any signs of machining or drilling, or that that model had even been recalled a few years back,” said a commentary in Guns Magazine on the case against David R. Olofson, of Berlin, Wis. “It didn’t matter the government had repeatedly failed to replicate automatic fire until they replaced the ammunition with a softer primer type.”
This is not new as it’s been this way for 25 years. The ATF is a rogue agency. If you think it’s bad now, wait until the RATS have 60 seats in the senate.
I’ve found that if I mistakenly over-tighten the recoil springs on my Rem 597 .22LR, it will put out two rounds at a time. I hope BATF doesn’t monitor these threads.
Defund the ATF.
So, if someone had a cap-and-ball revolver which mis-fired, causing two or more chambers to discharge with one trigger pull, that cap-and-ball revolver would be classified as a "machine gun"?
I call BS on this whole deal. How could this man have possibly been convicted? A witness was actually watching him fire the weapon and testified in court that he squeezed the trigger once and not 3 times?
If the NRA doesn’t support this guy and get this case to the supreme court then they are missing a great opportunity.
Slightly off topic but here goes.
What is the status of the open bolt semi MAC 10 and Mac 11s that are floating around out there?
The government is harassing innocent gun owners who do not break the law. Their purpose is to discourage legal gun ownership, so that only criminals will have guns.
BS!
This is why I don’t see an Obama presidency as a reason to get depressed. IT CAN”T GET MUCH WORSE than it is under Bush, the pseudo-Republican.
From what I read about this, the guy was active in supplying 80% AR15 receivers (supposedly legal) and helping others machine them (a gray area). I think that that was the real reason the BATF targeted him.
He supposedly loaned the this gun to a another guy and warned him that it could go full auto if the selector was pushed to a certain position. They guy did it and a law enforcement officer who witnessed it moved in. The guy turned in the person who loaned the gun to him and testified to this at the trial.
If the guy was machining 80% receivers, he should have known how what to do to have it fire semi-auto instead of full-auto. Assuming that it was wear instead of deliberate machining, I don’t know how using “soft primers” could make a difference. This is a gas operated gun, not a primer-movement-actuated one (there were a few pre-WWII guns that had this, but they were not very successful). I have read some of the legal pleadings on both sides and I still think there is a lot of stuff we still do NOT know from EITHER side.
This reminds me that Calvary Arms, KT Ordnance, and Shade Tree Armory all have sold 80% receivers and all have been raided by the BATF and shut down. I think that is what is known as a clue.
