MoJo: Everything you need to know re: AR-15 "easy conversion" to FULL automatic

[99th_Monkey]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by uppityperson (a host of the 2016 Postmortem forum).

In 1986, it became illegal for civilians to own newly made machine guns. But with just $299, you can modify your semi-automatic AK-47 or AR-15:

Slide Fire is a company that sells gun stocks that you can use with an AK-47 or an AR-15. These attachments enable accurate "controlled rapid firing," according to the company's website, meaning "you can shoot one round, 2 rounds…15 rounds or a full magazine," as Jeremiah Cottle, the US Air Force vet who invented the product, told Guns America last year.

Gun enthusiasts, who have posted videos on YouTube of the Slide Fire in use, seem to love the product. "It's just like an M-16!" the shooter in the YouTube video above exclaims. "You can shoot it accurately…or if you want to have fun, you can just spray the shit out of everything." Survivalists also love the product. "If the gun-grabbers and Brady camp gets hold of this, it's game over," wrote a user on a survivalist message board, referring to the Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence.

A gun modified with Slide Fire "fires as a machine gun would," explains David Coulson, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the federal government's gun regulator—but, he adds, that doesn't make it a machine gun.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/how-make-your-gun-shoot-fully-automatic-one-easy-step

[DCBob]

1. Ugh.

This shit has be controlled.

[Hoyt]

2. + 100. Gunners will tell us it's not that easy. But it is. Of course, there is always this

[NWCorona]

3. Why post this here?

[99th_Monkey]

5. Because there are conversion deniers claiming it's not possible.

But it clearly IS possible, and in fact quite easy.

So why do you want to suppress this information?

[NWCorona]

6. I look at it like the thread that warned about a recipe for glow sticks that actually hurt people

Then proceeded to give the recipe.

The fact that this conversion is commonly known should be enough to combat the naysayers.

But to be fair. My gripe is that it has nothing to do with the primaries.

[99th_Monkey]

9. Crap. Old habit die hard.

I've been posting only in GD-P since forever. lol

[BootinUp]

4. "Or if you want to have fun, you can just spray the shit out of everything."

[hack89]

7. Is there a single documented murder using such a weapon? nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. I'd have no problem with banning slide-fire mechanisms.

All they are is a way to circumvent the NFA (which severely restricted fully-automatic firearms) via a weaselly technicality. They certainly violate the spirit of the act.

[uppityperson]

10. Locking as does not meet GDP SOP. Thank you for understanding

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