And also incredibly rare, statistically speaking. You stand a better chance of getting hit by lightening than being shot by a white mass shooter at school, college or church.
Sadly, the only school related mass shooting ever, in NH, was when a bunch of blacks from Mass. came up and shot up some girl's "quinceañera" party down in Nashua IIRC
Ah. So not even a school shooting. A party. Got it. Tragic and terrible. Anyway I've got zero chance of getting shot at a strip club, party, gin joint or whatever else you want to throw around. (I gotta admit. Some of the women on the Instagram were pretty hot. In my 20s that might have been tempting. But I'm old enough to be their grandpa now). And the last
strip club shooting in Nashville, where I used to live, was done by a white guy. Bottom line is, for the "I was just minding my own business not doing anything shady and someone just started shooting the place for no damn reason" most of those are white people. And white people started freaking World War 1, World War 2 and are working on World War 3. I grew up in the 70s with most of the world going to bed at night thinking some idiot white person either in the U.S. or Russia was going to end the entire
planet for no good reason. And no I wouldn't trust Obama with nukes if it was up to me either despite his "peace prize." Humanity sucks. But most of what you're talking about is driven by poverty induced gang culture. And I already gave the solution when I posted about Tangelo Park Florida. As I recall you didn't like that for reasons I can't even fathom even though the solution was done without any government money.
I am. What I am not is a lawyer, I thought that was your line of expertise.
True. But lawyers have to rely on expert witnesses because we don't know everything.
All I'm saying is that the same logic that ATF and Trump used to ban bump stocks, is the same logic that is being used to try to ban Glock "switches".
They both work off the same principle, using the recoil action of the firearm to cycle the action in the same manner you would by pressing the trigger, only much more quickly. That's why under current law, ATF can not ban them because they are not, as you noted, "machine guns" as defined under current law.
Strike that, I was mistaken on its theory of operation. It jams the trigger bar to allow repeated cycling without releasing the trigger.
I thought it used recoil to achieve that on a per shot basis, but it appears that it simply applies a steady force to hold back the trigger bar thus acting just like an auto sear.
That's how ATF can classify it as a part to make a machine gun.
My guess was that AL was maybe trying to work around that at the state level for whatever reason.
Yep. That's the "logic." The politicians clamoring for this argue that the federal machine gun ban just isn't enough. Alabama actually doesn't have a local machine gun ban period. Nor did it ever have an assault weapons ban. Yet, supposedly, even though people like our gun grabbing mayor laud the federal assault weapons ban as SOOOO effective and even though machine guns are already effectively banned at the federal level for a long time and even though most of these shootings are
not being done with the types of weapons covered by the assault weapons ban, our mayor (well...technically I just live NEAR Birmingham so he's not my mayor) wants both a new federal assault weapons ban and a state Glock switch ban. Not a machine gun ban mind you, but specifically a ban on parts to convert regular guns to machine guns. Oh, and he also decries Alabama becoming a permitless carry state because...reasons. "These people can drive around with a gun in the car and the police can't do anything about it." Well...even before permitless carry, the police couldn't do anything about it unless they pulled someone over for some reason and found out that person had a gun. And if that person turns out to be a felon the police can still arrest him because it's still illegal to be a felon carrying a gun.
And here's where I think we agree. The machine gun ban itself is unconstitutional. I get why it was enacted. Back when the whole "tax stamp" scheme came into play you had Bonnie and Clyde and "machine gun Kelly" (the ganster, not the goofy white rapper) gunning people down with machine guns and the "St. Valentine's Day massacre" etc. All of this prohibition era (white on white) gang violence done with machine guns. Those SOBs ruined it for the rest of America. The Ronnie Raygun came along in the wake of the crack wars he helped fuel to fund the Contras, made the machine gun ban even worse based on black on black drug prohibition gang violence. We had a steady decline in murder for decades based on multiple factors including Tookie Williams, Louis Farrakhan and others negotiating a peace between the bloods and the crips, crack falling out of favor as a drug of choice. The statists on the left want to give credit to the assault weapons ban. The statists on the right want to give credit to the racist 1993 Clinton/Gingrich/Biden crime bill and local laws like three strikes and "stop and frisk." The assault weapons ban expired in 2004 but there wasn't an immediate jump in murders. Trump finished off the 1993 crime bill in 2018 and their wasn't an immediate jump in murders. The next drug wave was the opiod crisis that was initially in rural America with people making meth from farm chemicals and from prescription drugs. Despite the hype of the "Breaking Bad" TV show, the original meth crisis didn't cause a huge spike in murders like alchohol prohibition and crack did. But now fentynal is in the inner cities and thug / drug dealers are even lacing weed with fentynal in order to make the weed more addictive. I would say the inner city fentynal crisis combined with the "I'm entitled to destroy my own commuity because of racist cops killing George Floyd" mentality of 2020 is responsible for the current spike. The Glock switches don't help that's for sure. Idiots who have no business with automatic weapons can turn their Glocks into machine guns for $5 worth of 3D print filiment. Nobody should just pick up an automatic weapon without proper training and just start shooting. Or you get results like this.
The latest on the Birmingham shooting you posted is that it was a hit with multiple shooters
outside of the club. The intended target was killed with 3 innocent bystanders. And that's tragic. And I wouldn't want anybody to die. But someone with decent training should be able to assasinate someone who's standing in line waiting to get into a club with 1 or 2 bullets. I know this sounds terrible to say. But I wish these thugs were at least better trained so that they only killed their intended targets. But I'm way off the subject now I suppose.
Well, it is...maybe just somebody trying to "do something"?
Yep. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
I don't want to see this carnage anywhere.
I'd prefer that people not choose to shoot each other up over stupid $#@!.
I'd like to see them change their ways.
But more importantly, that carnage and chaos is eventually going to be used by Marxists like Harris and Walz for instance, to strip my rights away.
Sure. I don't want 600,000+ Europeans to kill each other in Ukraine and/or Russia either. Not sure what I can do about it though. Here's the kicker. Harris and Walz
love people talking about the inner city mass shootings you keep highlighting, without actually giving a solution, because they're ready in the wings with their own solutions. And they don't mind "conservative" solutions either. And the DNC Joe Biden in another semi coherent moment blamed the 2020 rise in crime on Trump (funny enough even PBS fact checked him on that) and talked about how he and Harris spent more money on police. These were the same people who were embracing the "defund the police" and "reimagine the police" movements. Democrats are behind the "cop city" training facility near Atlanta. And cops killed that non-binary protestor who was living in the woods to block the construction and claimed he shot at them but strangely there is no body camera footage. But conservatives will go along with cop city and stop and frisk and a new version of the racist 1993 crime bill and new gun control will get slipped in their. That happened under Ronald Raygun. It happened with Newt Gingrich. It will eventually happen again. And all because people keep highlighting the
problem without highlighting actual
solutions. (Again...Tangelo Park Florida).
I timed it.
It took 4.47 seconds to empty a 30 round mag.
That's 6.7 rounds per second.
That's 402 rounds per minute, that is the standard metric for measuring rate of fire.
A full auto AK, built and designed from the factory as such, has a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute.
Here's a vid of a guy bump firing a Glock.
He empties a thirty round mag in 1.91 seconds.
That's 15 rounds per second, 900 rounds per minute.
The only factory Glock made to fire full auto achieves a rate of around 1200 rounds per minute.
What am I getting at?
That you can achieve almost factory rates of full auto fire from various semi auto weapons simply by using exact finger tension and placement on the trigger.
And the reason for the difference between the Glock's rate of fire and the AK's rate is that one is a short pistol cartridge that can cycle in the weapon much faster than a much longer rifle cartridge.
Okay. Well you're the gun expert. If by some crazy twist of fate I ever find myself in Federal court arguing that auto sear bans should be struck down as a violation of the Second Amendment I'll be sure and contact you as a witness. Meanwhile there's only one law being proposed that would actually stem the tide of the Glock switch problem and that's a ban on guns that can take a Glock switch.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/05...easy-to-convert-to-illegal-automatic-weapons/
And, of course, that will require people like Whoopie Goldberg to turn in their Glocks. She's so clueless she doesn't know that Glocks are semi-automatic just like AR-15s.