• orclev@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      More violence possibly but it’s not going to meaningfully increase gun sales. This entire thing is so ridiculously overblown. The thing in question here, forced reset triggers, just let you pull the trigger slightly faster (like less than a seconds difference compared to a normal trigger) than you otherwise would. It really is the most inconsequential decision whether you’re for or against gun ownership. Almost nobody cares about this decision.

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        19 hours ago

        What’s “meaningful”? Gun enthusiasts and criminals will want guns that can be fired more quickly. Almost nobody needs these triggers, but the people that do should make you worried. If it wasn’t going to make money, why would people fight so hard to make them available?

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          19 hours ago

          Most “gun enthusiasts” don’t give a single fuck about these. They’re pretty useless as they just waste ammo and make your aim worse. I have no idea who’s actually fighting for these, but it’s definitely not the majority of gun owners. You’re right, nobody needs these, and almost nobody actually owns them. This decision won’t really change that either. Ultimately this is largely a non-story just as much as it was when they were banned in the first place. There’s far more meaningful things people should be focusing on right now both in terms of gun violence and just in general.

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            19 hours ago

            Most people don’t care about the availability of human meat for consumption. Even if it were available for sale, almost nobody would want to buy it, much less eat it. But the number of human meat enthusiasts is never zero, and the beef industry wouldn’t be affected one way or the other.

            If there was a meat industry push to start selling human meat, it would be extremely alarming, and anyone spending time preventing it would not be wasting their time. You would wonder about why and how anyone is selling it, and even worse who is buying it.

            Certainly there are more impactful issues, and plenty of fights that need fighting, but that’s not a reason to ignore this one.

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          19 hours ago

          Yes. The guy just dumped the magazine, you can do that with a normal trigger as well, it just takes a second or two longer. Lets say it takes you 7 seconds to empty a 10 round magazine with a normal trigger. A forced reset trigger lets you do it in 5 seconds. Meanwhile an actual machine gun can do that in half a second.

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            19 hours ago

            FRTs and Super Safeties make the gun go cyclic or very close to it, period. If I’m being generous that rifle was shooting at ~600 RPM, most shooters can only maintain 200-250 on semi auto.

            You are either seeing something completely different to what I am seeing or you are lying.