Originally Posted by rcompart

Not to be a debby-downer but this is exactly the stuff we DON'T need right now. I'm a huge advocate of guns, both for hunting and sport shooting and I have gone through the hurdles to legally purchase and own full-auto weapons. Not semi-auto weapons but rather the ones that come straight from the factory with the option to hold the trigger and empty the magazine. That being said, this piece, while amazing in what appears a very simplistic design, is something that unless it carries the EXACT restrictions a full-auto weapon does, should not be legal to sell, purchase or posses.

Sorry if you some of you feel I'm giving up my 2nd amendment on this. I am not. I just strongly feel something like is nothing but a circumvention of the laws relating to the possession of a full-auto weapon. Weapons like this might not be used in as many crimes as pistols, or for that matter, knives or blunt bludgeoning objects, but they serve very little purpose in the civilian sector and if you want to legally poses one, you better be ready to give up the good on your past without hesitation. The other side of this is if you haven't followed the set-forth procedures and haven't gone through the correct channels to legally posses them and you still do and are caught, it's a felony with very stiff punishments.

There's a fine line that no one wants to cross when it comes to guns and an AR-15 is not an assault weapon but when you put something like this on it, it becomes one. I think the assault weapons ban is not a bad thing, I do however think the definition of an assault weapon or assault-style weapon is completely incorrect. We don't need more laws, we need stronger enforcement of the ones we already do and we need signification stiffer penalties for those that don't abide by them. Regardless, this won't keep the crazies from doing what has happened in the schools, theaters, workplaces, etc, but it will be a detriment to those that still value their own life even if they don't value someone else's.