...I am blocked. In contrast, GC&RKBA enforces no such line

Needs to be said.

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It's interesting to note the company he prefers as well, and how his guns and ownership of such a large number are somehow exempted from any criticism.

...while others are not.

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... doesn't understand cyclic rate of fire vs. actual rate of fire.

For starters, an AR is not full-auto. The trigger must be pulled once to fire one round. Can you pull a trigger 700 times in one minute? I highly doubt it.

The 700/minute figure is an extrapolation from the time it takes to fire one magazine on full auto. Standard M16/M4 magazine is 30 rounds. That means it would take a 23.3 magazines to fire 700 rounds. Magazine changes take more than a second -- more like two or three seconds -- so the magazine changes alone would eat up most or all or your minute.

But the real limiting factor is overheating. Firing 700 rounds in a minute, even it were physically possible, would leave your barrel literally red-hot: it would be glowing and might actually deform. The only automatic weapons made for sustained full-auto fire are belt-fed heavy machine guns, and they use water-cooling to deal with this problem.

The actual rate of fire of weapons like the AR-15 is between 70 and 90 rounds per minute. Saying an AR can fire 700 rounds a minute is like saying that because my car is capable of going 100 mph, if I drive it for an hour I will have traveled 100 miles.

...ties back to that whole "why can't we have a cogent discussion about guns" subject that keeps coming up -- the anti-rights side simply won't acknowledge reality. Facts simply don't matter to them, so how can anyone wonder why it is so often so difficult to discuss the subject?

Machine guns are air cooled because it's too hard to transport water.
So gunners are trained to fire in short controlled bursts or the barrels will overheat/ melt / warp. This is also why assistant gunners carry spare barrels.

The point you were making is really important because you can't fire that much.

I'm thinking of older weapons, like the Browning M1917. Yes, modern machine guns are air-cooled, but as you say, gunners are trained to shoot in short bursts.

claim I'm a gun nuts who has a private arsenal.

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