“...physically altering the part you risk a runaway gun.”
I, uh, heard a story one time, about this feller
that studied and studied and studied
the mechanism of his semi-auto MAK-90
and came to a good understanding of how it all worked
and determined that if he inserted a little shim
in just the right place it would cause it to fire
in full auto instead of semi-auto.
So he did that and then he took the gun down to the
river for a little test firing.
He loaded up a 30 round magazine, and
just pulled the trigger one time and then
he had to hold on until the gun emptied itself.
He says he could have thrown the gun down and
walked away and it wouldn’t have mattered.
Once that first round fired,
it was not going to stop until it ran out of ammo.
That incident scared the heck out of him
and I have it on good authority that
he never tried such a thing ever again.
LOL Uh-HUH. I once saw a M1911A1 45 that had been shot so much and ill cared for that on a qualification range it went full auto for just seven rounds and the poor Battalion XO holding it wound up pointing it in the vertical from the recoil.