[marktwain]

Once upon a time, in a place far, far away, some shady characters wanted me to convert a bunch of pistols to full auto. I told them no, that the pistols had been designed to make it difficult to convert to full auto.

They were disappointed, and I told them that the guns were much more effective in semi-auto anyway.

Weirdly, they said, well, we didn't want to hurt anyone, just make a lot of noise! It was a strange insight into people who styled themselves as potential revolutionaries.

[tet68]

Probably just bored ATF agents out for a little fun.

[absolootezer0]

And as far as modifying it to full auto, y’know, if you are a competent gunsmith with the parts and the training and the inclination to commit federal felonies...

i'd think you'd be smart enough to use something a little better than a mac10.

[DCBryan1]

I'll have to dig up the story here in Little Rock, but the video shows two amish youts going into a gas station to rob/kill clerk. The boy at the door had a revolver, and the robber had a Mac 10 semi auto pistol. Somewhere in "da hood" they heard the way to make it fire full auto was to file down the firing pin.

Without testfiring, these genious' went into the store flashmob style, and the revolver kid held the door open and watch for "da 5-0".

Mac 10 guy walks up to counter, pulls gun, click click click click......tries to chamber new round, points again, click click click. Second time he performs malfunction check, clerk pulls a Charter Arms .44 magnum bulldog. Blows the kid away right there. The kid with the revolver turns around to receive 2nd blast in the belly button.

Both kids lived 2 houses away, and the man knew both of them since they could walk away from their crack house as toddlers. One dead, one paralyzed for life.

Great shooting. The news report showed the mandatory "momma" showing up and confronting the store owner saying "he was a good boy", "You didn't have to shoot him" nonsense. Next best part was the LRPD PIO saying, "we retreived a Mac 10 pistol that was illegally converted to fully automatic fire by filing down the firing pin". LOL! That rumor still floats around Pine Bluff, Memphis, and Little Rock, today.

If I ever figure out how to tranfer from VHS to DVD to Internet, I want to show it to you.

[Daveinyork]

There’s a local city councilwoman, who is IMO the most despicable human being I know, who would get money from a local Democrat businessman and stage a gun buyback whenever she is running for office. It gets her publicity and raves from the editorialists. But our city is engulfed in a wave of violent crime, and of course, the gun buyback changes nothing.

One day I had a flier stuck in my mail slot that had directions for making a working gun out of materials available in any hardware store. The anonymous author urged us to make enough home made guns so that we could sell them in the buyback program, take the money and buy a real weapon.

[Travis McGee]

Reporters don't know rifles from shotguns, and they are proud of their ignorance, since they consider firearms inherently evil.

[Chode]

if it's a real MAC-10, it came full-auto from the factory...

if it's a knock-off firing semi-auto like the early Cobray or SWD versions that fired from an Open-bolt it's not hard to do

ALL versions made in the USA from the late 70's early 80's on (don't remember the year) fire from a Closed-bolt by law and that is NOT so easily do able