I'm sure it's possible. That does not say much about the defense attorney or the expert the defense attorney may or may not have retained to support their position. I agree some people are more conservative than others and that is their choice. Any law when litigated can have different...
You are correct the law does not mention Manual Loading. However, when explaining semiauto you need to explain what is a "manually loaded" firearm. In addition, how else does the firearm unload and load itself if it did not use the energy of the cartridge.
No I am not. Open bolt design is a Semiauto because the shooter only has to do is press the trigger to shoot each and every shot. The shooter does not have to do a separate manual operation to unload and load the firearm. It does it automatically with just the press of the trigger. There is no...
To be a Manual Loading firearm, the shooter has to do some type of manual operation to load the next round into the chamber no matter what it is. If the shooter only has to pull the trigger to shoot each shot and the firearm automatically unloads and reloads itself without the shooter having to...
I beg to differ. Here is the definition of semiautomatic per ATF:
Semiautomatic rifle. Any repeating rifle which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing cartridge to extract the fired cartridge case and chamber the next round, and which requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire each...
I looked into that and the amount of force exerted on the bolt catch is minimal because it is stopping the bolt carrier at the rearmost position when the bolt carrier is just starting its acceleration from the stop position. I'm not an engineer but the force is calculated based on its...
Just posted this in another thread
Even if you hold it down it's still not semiauto by definition. A semiauto extract and loads itself after the press of the trigger without the shooters involvement. A "Manual Loading" firearm by definition is when the shooter after firing a shot must do...
Even if you hold it down it's still not semiauto by definition. A semiauto extract and loads itself after the press of the trigger without the shooters involvement. A "Manual Loading" firearm by definition is when the shooter after firing a shot must do something or operate something on the...