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Ocelot II

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3. Not exactly. Here's an illustration of how they work:
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 01:08 PM
Jun 2024
https://nyti.ms/43NEi6b The statutory definition of a machine gun is “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.” The technicality SCOTUS focused on was the fact that the bump stock causes the trigger to be pulled faster than a human could pull it, but the gun doesn't fire by "a single function of the trigger." Interestingly, it was TFG's administration that banned them in the first place. It will take an act of Congress to change the definition of machine gun to include the mechanism of a bump stock.

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