Article 2Y9R9 Circumventing machine-gun controls with a robotic glove that automates faster-than-human trigger-pulls

Circumventing machine-gun controls with a robotic glove that automates faster-than-human trigger-pulls

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Cory Doctorow
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Since 1934, the National Firearms Act has limited ownership of "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger" (AKA, "machine guns"), but with the AutoGlove, a kind of exoskeletal automation system for your finger, you can get around the limits by having your roboticized hand squeeze the trigger so fast that you reach machine-gun-like rates of fire. (more")

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