Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Meet One Of The Analysts Who Determined That Bump Stocks Were Legal (HBO)" video.

  1. +Gotti are you fucking kidding me? There's several designs already out there which are essentially 90-95% printed and the only things that hasn't been worked out is the barrel because it's meant to hold so much pressure. And considering that a barrel is a freaking steel tube (just ask someone with a small lathe to make you a chamber reamer) as long as quality steel is available guns are printable. I mean, it's vastly easier (and cheaper) to just build guns out of scrap metal but since people think metalworking is black magic, 3d printed guns are perceived as a game-changer due to the "just press a button" aspect. But the fact is that we're developing metal injection molding and sintering technology there may come a day when you'll be able to print a "green" part which is cooked and the heat will finish the steel into a stronger part able to handle heat and pressure.
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  2. It takes a little finesse: https://youtu.be/7RdAhTxyP64?t=50s the differences are honestly pretty negligible. Making something illegal doesn't deter people. Most people don't do heroin because it's illegal, but because they don't want to end up as junkies. If you do want to use drugs though, making it illegal doesn't help, in fact it makes it worse. Prohibition all over again. We don't make things illegal as deterrence. We make things illegal expecting people to do it, that's why we make it illegal - to charge the person with a crime. We don't make murder illegal to deter murder, but to put murderers in jail. If you want to massacre 50 people you don't care about jail time.
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  3. +DrinkTheCoffee fear the man who trained a kick 10,000 times, not the man who trained 10,000 kicks once. So what if you have multiple guns? With two or three you can already rack up a kill count. The deadliest mass shooting so far was at Utoya, Norway and only involved a Mini-14 and a pistol. 69 dead.
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  4. Metal 3d printed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ZYKMBDm4M The others obviously required metal barrels/barrel liners because plastic barrels will burst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REGeDjuADXI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAvLdAXHZ-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwb0xGut21Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eARrF5lt1A The limits are human ingenuity. Again, 3d printing is hardly necessary for homemade guns and non-state agents involved in conflicts have always managed to make firearms, even if it's just with drills and files. Chambering and rifling a barrel with 3d printed mandrels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8-Z7fYIB8
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  5. Yeah and if he was taking aimed shots he would have potentially killed 1 person for every 1 or 2 shots. But with bumpfire, 99% of the rounds hit the pavement.
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  6. +nathan ouellette if you don't need to be accurate then just pulling the trigger very fast without caring for a proper sight picture will make you almost as fast as a real automatic anyway.
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  7. You're right, it can be amended. Then amend it. You people always claim it can be amended to excuse bans but never actually bother with trying to amend it first. Amend it, if it's so easy.
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  8. I'd recommend watching reloading videos here on youtube. There's everything from people casting lead bullets to electroplating lead with copper, from progressive presses to people making homemade pneumatic contraptions to swage FMJ rounds. Only thing I haven't seen is anyone drawing their own brass casings but they're so widely available there's no point. You can't ban bullets. All the components are fairly straightforward and there's already a ton of information and tooling available.
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  9. +Coda Mission except that the accessory is only meant to give you shouldering abilities. The basis behind bump firing is letting the gun recoil, which you can't do with a stock in a fixed position if you're shouldering the weapon. The "fire rate" is inherent to the gun itself. All the bump stock does is provide enough clearance for the gun to reciprocate with the stock remains fixed in your shoulder/cheek. Your way of interpreting it bans all semi-automatic firearms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V05qvyXAu8 even pistols) because the ability to match automatic fire is inherent to the operating cycle. All a semi-automatic does is use a disconnector to interrupt the automatic function, and the cycle is typically faster than a human finger releasing the trigger - by "bumping" a gun you're just resetting the disconnector as fast as possible to allow the sear to release the hammer/striker.
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  10. More people in the ATF should be like Rick Vasquez.
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  11. The rate of fire is inherent to the semi-auto gun. It's the lifting or not lifting of the finger that seals the deal, not the rate. One could manufacture and automatic that is slow and fires at 200 RPM while one can use a light trigger mod to fire 300-400 RPM on any firearm without even bumping it.
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  12. What "today's technology"? It's just a stock with a cavity to let the gun recoil. It's Newtonian physics, they've been around for 15 billion years.
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  13. +Jonathan Nguyen there's a lot of new technology by that definition. Actual mechanisms or electronic systems, programming, etc. The bump stock got around the ATF by not being "anything". It can't have an actual mechanism. It's as much of a "new technology" as a cup handle.
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