Gun Control & RKBA

in a post-1986 AR pattern rifle.



We lovingly refer to this scenario as a 'kaboom', or a 'kb', or a 'kB!'. It can happen for other reasons, but full-auto or burst firing is EXTREMELY timing sensitive. Post 1986 bolt, bolt carrier, and receiver tolerances are modified, by law, to be unable to accept a readily available supply of parts that can convert it to full auto. They don't add metal. They remove it. Things are wider. Pins are missing or in different places. The bolt and bolt carrier are about an inch shorter, again, missing metal. The hammer is missing the tang that engages the auto sear.

If you disturb the timing of cycle, and the firing pin hits the round while the bolt face is out of battery, you get a result like the photo above. You get chunks of metal in your arm, and face. Some of them at similar velocities as a bullet exiting the barrel would normally have. It is a life-threatening failure.


I would also note, on the subject of 'auto sears floating around since the 1980's' (a supposition I flatly reject, because they were regulated all the way back to 1934), the shithead in the Las Vegas shooting didn't use auto sears. He used slide stocks (bump firing).

He used a thing that is only legal because the BATFE licked it's finger, determined which way the wind was blowing, and issued a legally binding opinion that the slide stock is legal. He somehow didn't acquire any auto-sears. Did he? (I know the investigation is STILL not complete, but I've seen no claim that he did. I'm open to correction on that point if I am wrong.)

He had the money. He had the means. He had the complete and utter disregard for human life, and his own future. Didn't get any. Went with a legal thing instead.


Want to ban slide stocks? I got your back, home skillet. Let's do this. They should be illegal for the same reason a grenade is a Destructive Device and not protected by the 2nd amendment. (indiscriminate fire) I've seen other 'gunners' in this group express similar support. Do it. Let's do it together. I'm down.