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Does that mean the little "Hellfire" trigger device that was sold at gun shows all over in the late 80s and early 90s is illegal too?
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Does that mean the little "Hellfire" trigger device that was sold at gun shows all over in the late 80s and early 90s is illegal too?
No. What was in the above video of the 9mm sbr, is not a machinegun. The rubber band in the video is placed in a manner that simply increases trigger pull weight. This can help bump firing by making the trigger be more likely to reset during recoil. The original Hellfire trigger device (the first mass distributed bumpfire assistance device) used a spring pushing the trigger forward to do the same thing as the above rubber band. This is perfectly legal by US federal law. I believe the OP is/was looking to the same thing with the rubber band as what is shown in the above video.
Bump firing is firing a semiauto firearm in a way that allows the trigger to reset during recoil, then after recoil, pulling the firearm forward against a stationary trigger finger to pull the trigger, and start the firing cycle again. This can result in semiautomatic fire at a rate that approximates machinegun fire.
Bump firing was at first, usually done from the hip. Until the bump fire stocks came to be, shouldering a firearm while trying to bump fire didn't usually work too well. Bump firing from the hip was/is a great way to turn money (ammunition) into noise.
Bump fire stocks aid bump firing by allowing action and trigger mechanism to move rearward independent of the shooter's firing hand, trigger finger, and support shoulder. This allows bump firing while somewhat aiming. It is important that when using a bump fire stock, the shooter manually pulls/pushes the action forward against his/her stationary trigger finger. This manual action between shots is an important legal point.
A precursor to the current bump fire stocks was the Atkins Accelerator. It was similar to the current bump fire stocks, except that the action recoiled within the stock, independent of the the shooter and the trigger finger, and it had a spring that pushed the action back into the forward position. The BATFE initially didn't consider the Atkins Accelerator to be a machinegun. After the initial release of the Atkins Accelerator, the BATFE decided that the Atkins Accelerator stock, with a spring installed, was a machinegun, since even though the trigger was being cycled once per shot, the shooter was not making individual actuations of the trigger, but rather the shooter was actuating the trigger once, and the firearm was pulling its own trigger against the stationary trigger finger.
The OP's original drawing was unclear to me, and I wanted to caution the OP, and others against inadvertently making an illegal machinegun similar to the Atkins Accelerator.