• theyoyomaster@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Any modern gun can functionally do the exact same thing with a beltloop, stick or just your finger. The difference is that a machine gun is actually a specific and different function from this that does it automatically for you.

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      1 year ago

      So kinda like the same distinction between semi-auto and full-auto? One just does things for you automatically?

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        1 year ago

        Not at all, fully automatic is it will continue to fire so long as the trigger is held down. It has always been that. With both FRTs and bump stocks you still pull the trigger individually for every single round that is fired. You can do the exact same thing without an FRT or a bump stock and even revolvers can be fan fired.