Full Auto to Burst

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Does anyone know if you converted a full auto to a burst mode, would that constitute manufacturing a "new" machine gun?
 
Odd and interesting caveat, which I understand does not apply to someone in AZ, or most of the US:

Did you know that in Connecticut it is lawful to own a full-auto firearm, but NOT one that fires in burst mode? Their assault weapons law prohibits that specifically.

Weird, huh? So, I guess to make this relevant (barely) I'll advise that if you do that just be aware that your gun would not be lawful there.
 
Odd and interesting caveat, which I understand does not apply to someone in AZ, or most of the US:

Did you know that in Connecticut it is lawful to own a full-auto firearm, but NOT one that fires in burst mode? Their assault weapons law prohibits that specifically.

Weird, huh? So, I guess to make this relevant (barely) I'll advise that if you do that just be aware that your gun would not be lawful there.

I'm not sure you have that right. The CT assault weapons ban prohibits select fire, so you can have a gun that has a selector that is full auto and safe, but not one that has positions for safe, semi and auto. I bought a CT uzi with a two position selector. I don't think the ban makes the distinction between burst and auto, it just prohibits "select fire".
 
You may be right, though I'm not sure how it is applied in practice. The law says:

(1) “Assault weapon” means:

(A) (i) Any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user or any of the following specified semiautomatic firearms: ...

You can't have both. You may be able to have burst instead of full-auto.
 
You may be right, though I'm not sure how it is applied in practice. The law says:

(1) “Assault weapon” means:

(A) (i) Any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user or any of the following specified semiautomatic firearms: ...

You can't have both. You may be able to have burst instead of full-auto.
Not to hijack the thread but it would be interesting to know if a burst only gun would be CT legal.
 
The daft thing is that reading that sentence it could mean almost anything. Is it only an illegal assault weapon if it is capable of full auto, semi-auto, AND burst? Well, sure, that would fit.

But the word "or" seems to preclude any combination of two firing modes. And I think that's how they apply it. (Because heaven knows we're safer if our full auto machine guns can't also be fired in semi-auto mode... o_O)

The sentence could have been written a little more clearly and with an extra word or two removed any uncertainty.
 
The daft thing is that reading that sentence it could mean almost anything. Is it only an illegal assault weapon if it is capable of full auto, semi-auto, AND burst? Well, sure, that would fit.

But the word "or" seems to preclude any combination of two firing modes. And I think that's how they apply it. (Because heaven knows we're safer if our full auto machine guns can't also be fired in semi-auto mode... o_O)

The sentence could have been written a little more clearly and with an extra word or two removed any uncertainty.

I've got a feeling if they wrote it the way they intended, no machine guns would be allowed.
 
My understanding is that to make a (fully automatic) M16 legal in Connecticut, you have to alter the selector so that the "semi" position produces the same result as the "auto" position. In other words it can't be capable of both full automatic and semiautomatic fire. (Connecticut bans "selective fire" weapons.) Since burst fire, under federal law, is considered automatic fire ("fires more than one shot with a single function of the trigger"), it would seem that burst is legally equivalent to automatic fire, and that therefore a safe-burst-auto selector would be legal in Connecticut (as long as it didn't allow semiautomatic fire). But I would hate to be the test case on this.

This bizarre result is what happens when legislators are ignorant of the subject matter they are legislating about.
 
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