Originally posted by Kai
If your friend's rifle has the ability to do 3-round bursts and it is not NFA registered, he may have some serious legal problems in the future to the tune of $10k and 10 years in federal prison. If we are talking about an AR-15 and he has a 3-round selector switch, even though it won't fire 3-round bursts, it is still considered an automatic by Uncle Sam. Not good.
BTW, the US legal definition of "Fully Automatic" is the ability to fire more then two shots from a single chamber with one pull of the trigger. Why they chose two instead of one is beyond me, and I know of a few guys who tried to make a kit for AR-15s to fire two rounds with one pull since it is not legally considered "full auto." Well, maybe it is in California.
I don't quite remember what kind of rifle it was, not an AR-15 though, it might have been some sort of H&K. The dude has so many guns he can't even tell me the number. One of the more remarkable guns he has is a Benelli autoloading shotgun with an 18-round magazine. He also has a Barrett .50BMG.
No matter how many rounds come out of an AR-15 when you pull the trigger, it's still illegal here. Another interesting piece of local anti-gun legislation is that the sale of 50 caliber firearms such as the Barrett is illegal in the City of Los Angeles (where I live). Obviously, people robbing liquor stores with a .50BMG is a big problem here.
The next mission the City is embarking on is to ban the sale of ammunition.
