noticed a mention of the mini 14 staple release fire situation and i just had to interject..... i was a federally licensed firearms dealer for 17 years, and in that time i have had PLENTY of interaction with BATFE in person, at the shooting range and in my shop. originally years ago, this subject came up in another thread from i believe badger arms, so decided to try it myself. an BATFE agent supervisor i knew fairly well came by one day and went out to the range with me to shoot sme weapons as i was working on a gun for him at the time, and we needed to check out the new sighting system i had installed. i told him about what i had read online, and he actually SHOWED ME how to do it on an older 180 series mini 14 i kept in the truck. he installed the staple, pulled and released the trigger a few times, and then said "now watch this" , pulled the trigger slowly found the sweet spot and the sucker turned into a bullet hose. he then proceeded to tell me that that trick has been around for as long as the mini 14 had been manufactured, just not many people knew about it. he said it was all in the design of the mini 14 trigger group, and the only difference in the fully auto mini 14 and the AC556 was the AC556 had a slot cut into the secondary sear and a selector switch that pretty much did the same thing as the staple, excpt it put the secondary sear a little farther back allowing or full auto fire, and that putting the staple in between the secondary sear and the primary sear to achieve a "release fire" situation (I.E. fires once with a single pull and fires with the release of the trigger) was 100% LEGAL as far as BATFE was concerned as each time the weapon fired it was a SEPARATE ACTION OF THE TRIGGER. when you fire the weapon in a release fire situation and get the feel for it and it opens up like that, it creates a "bump fire" situation SIMULATING full auto fire, NOT a full automatic situation. it is NOT a "slam fire" type of situation as the way the mini 14 is designed, the bolt has to be locked into battery BEFORE the weapon will fire. it will not "slam fire" as the bolt absorbs the force of the hammer falling if it falls out of battery and the hammer just follows the bolt down. with a decent magazine (not those junk aluminum aftermarket pieces of sh*t) and a little practice you can reach right around 600-700 rounds per minute with little trick.i know of one guy who brought his mini 30 to me after he had cleaned it. he took it to the range to fire it and it pretty much opened up on him and scared him half to death. come to find out, he had a small piece of cleaning patch lodged in between the primary and secondary sear and it did the exact same thing as the staple trick.
this little trick would be useful in a red dawn type situation, or if aliens landed or if we were over run with zombies, BUT this little trick is also EXACTLY why the mini 14 and the M1 carbine are on the new proposed federal assault weapons list. also, while it is legal to do this per BATFE federally, dont think for one second that your local DA or attorney general in your state wont see this as an actual machine gun and prosecute you, even with BATFE letter in hand!
