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To: bentway who wrote (44068)	11/8/2017 2:30:26 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 361409

<<<< 'Automatic rifles' ARE legal. Machine guns are not.>>>> Common misperception. Auotmatic rifles are the same as a machine gun. Semi-automatic guns are different. The difference is in how they function. An automatic gun requires one trigger pull and will continue shooting bullets until you take your finger off the trigger. ..........A semi-automatic requires you to pull the trigger each time the bullet - round - leaves the gun. The bump-stocks bridges this difference as it reconfugures the gun so it takes one pull of the trigger - like an automatic - but the bump-stock allows the bullets to fire continuously.

To: bentway who wrote (44068)	11/8/2017 2:42:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 361409

Generally (but not always) "automatic rifles" refers to fully automatic rifles. Machine guns usually (but not always) refers to heavier weapons, sometimes but not always belt fed, usually either water cooled or with quick change barrels, typically (but not always) used with a bipod, a tripod, or with some sort of vehicle mount. These are machine guns. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org These usually aren't called machine guns en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org Not all fully automatic firearms are machine guns. Submachine guns, rifles, assault rifles, shotguns, pistols or cannons may be capable of fully automatic fire, but are not designed for sustained fire. As a class of military rapid-fire guns, machine guns are fully automatic weapons designed to be used as support weapons and generally used when attached to a mount or fired from the ground on a bipod or tripod. Many (but not all) machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on rifles. en.wikipedia.org OTOH the National Firearms Act did use "machine gun" to refer to all fully automatic weapons.