[supercat]

”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.’..”

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).

[Anti-Bubba182]

I doubt they try that, but on semi autos especially those in military style, I can see them landing on someone hard. In light of post 14 though he may actually have been in possession of a modified weapon. Also, the quote I posted was from another article and may not be what the government argued.