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by voxic11 561 days ago
> (3) The term “firearm” means (A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon; (C) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer; or (D) any destructive device. Such term does not include an antique firearm.

according to the law antique firearms are not firearms.
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edgineer 561 days ago
And at one time a 14-inch long shoestring with a loop at each end was a "machinegun."

https://web.archive.org/web/20050313043608/https://jpfo.org/...

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bbatha 561 days ago
That’s an incredibly biased reading of that. It’s the gun + 14” of shoe string attached to the trigger enabling automatic fire that’s the machine gun not the string on its own.
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edgineer 560 days ago
No, this 2004 letter specifies that the string with loops on its own, because it was designed to be used to modify a rifle to fire automatically, was a machinegun.

Three years later, in 2007 the ATF decided differently, "Upon further review, we have determined that the string by itself is not a machinegun..."

https://everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/01/25/shoestring-machine-...

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