“..”What mattered was the government’s position that none of the above was relevant because ‘[T]here’s no indication it makes any difference under the statute. If you pull the trigger once and it fires more than one round, no matter what the cause it’s a machine gun.’..”
This is the kind of shyster reasoning that makes the Goverment, particularly the BATF, hated.
By the BATF's definition, would not most double-barrel shotguns qualify as machine guns? After all, by their definition, something that can be readily modified to be a machine gun is a machine gun, and most double-barrel shotguns could easily be so modified (e.g. two-trigger models could be made to fire twice with one trigger pull by simply fastening the triggers together).