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PromptCritical's avatar

"At least unless coil guns, or some other technically-not-a-firearm invention, create facts on the ground faster than Congress can ban them."

I have not done any sort of detailed analysis of the physics involved, but I don't see any reason why a large-bore full auto airgun isn't possible. Paintball guns with this capability exist and have for some time. Replace the ball hopper with a magazine filled with literal 9mm bullets, and if you can get 1000 FPS at 800 RPM, you effectively have an air-powered MP5-SD.

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Alexis Williams's avatar

I see reopening the registry to be less unlikely than you put forward. There's enough momentum behind the increasingly serious approach to the tax clause that I could see SCOTUS saying that the ATF has to at least let people buy stamps again.

Also, I just wouldn't be too certain of anything with guns, and that applies as much to potential backsliding as it does to unexpectedly swift progress. Thirty years ago we barely got the federal AWB to have a sunset clause, and I don't think anyone in 1994 would have believed you if you had told them that we'd have nationwide shall-issue CCWs and be on the threshold of assault weapons bans being ruled unconstitutional.

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