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In reply to the discussion: 'No More Weapons!' billboard placed on US border [View all]boppers
(16,588 posts)When your "arm" is electronic, the boundaries get messy. It was based on (I forget the wording) something like individual human action. Automate humans, though, and a new question needs to be resolved.
Human/machine is the wrong place to manage the boundaries, as humans become more and more machine....
And yes, we (the US) seem to have drawn the line, legally, not at "many" rounds, but "more than one" per trigger pull. Two rounds per pull=machine gun. One round per pull, but automating a pull: Not a machine gun. (And don't even get me started about double trigger, double barrel, shotguns, which are one looong pull).
It's the wrong place to draw a line. Two .22 bitty slugs are not the same as two .50 cal thumpers. Rounds per pull is totally non-sensical.