Posted: 2/13/2010 2:57:12 PM EDT
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Technology is getting more and more sophisticated every day. Advances in artificial limbs have me thinking about an interesting possible work around for having a fun (but impractical) "machine gun" that might be legal (at least until the ATF makes up a new rule. Most of us are already aware that guns can be fired electronically. The easiest way to do this is to use a solenoid to actuate the sear. The ATF has already ruled that an electronic switch is a "trigger". So full auto guns with a button instead of a trigger are not exempt from the NFA. However semi-auto only guns with electrical firing systems have been sold legally. Now, what if someone were to take the same technology that allows people with artificial limbs to control them with thoughts and apply the technology to a firearm? People can think a lot faster than they can move. If a person had the proper electrodes, sensors, etc. implanted to receive a particular nerve impulse from their brain, they could then have an inductive coupling device implanted in their hand. This would interface with a circuit in the grip of the gun that would cause it to fire a single round every time the person consciously willed it to. All a person would need to do to fire at extremely rapid rates would be to think of a burst instead of a single shot. Since the gun only fires a single shot for a single input, it should be a legal semiautomatic gun. All the technology would do is allow the shooter to fire much faster that they could ever hope to do by using their muscles to move the trigger back and forth. Understand I don't imagine any marketable or practical applications for this, but it would be a whole lot of fun. Within her brain, below the level of consciousness, lives an intact image of that arm, a phantom. When Kitts thinks about flexing her elbow, the phantom moves. Impulses racing down from her brain are picked up by electrode sensors in the white cup and converted into signals that turn motors, and the artificial elbow bends. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/bionics/fischman-text.html |
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Quoted: If they can rule the Akins a machine gun (sophisticated bumpfire device), do you actually think you can work around anything? Nice try, champ. But its the wrong direction. You obviously missed the part where I acknowledged it's impracticality and the likelihood the ATF would rule against it. |