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this guy was often one of the first people on the scene following a suspected arson, once emergency services had done what they needed to do. at times, there were also civilians on the periphery. often, they were freaking out, and understandably so; their home or workplace had just, quite literally, gone up in smoke

this investigator wouldn’t try to calm them down. he wouldn’t comfort them or be a shoulder to cry on.

instead, he’d walk up to the person most visibly losing their shit, hand them a fire extinguisher, and say “hey, can you keep an eye out for any other fires, and if you see one, can you put it out with this?”

of course, there was no actual risk of another fire. he wouldn’t be on the scene investigating if there was even a chance that the fire wasn’t completely put out. but the bystander didn’t need to know that

because that person, without fail, would immediately pull it together, take the fire extinguisher, and stand guard. they were, at least temporarily, calm enough for this investigator to do this job

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Last sheratober post!! and i offer this piece i rendered like a possessed person. For prompt: corrupted princess & AU shera. Also this is fanart of my fic on AO3 linked above!

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The mechanics of the concept are simple: your average semi automatic weapon will fire once when the trigger is pulled, and some aspect of the recoil or related processes will move the bolt back, feed another round, and cock the gun into the fire position once more. Removing your finger will allow the trigger to reset, and then you’re clear to repeat the process.

A bump fire is sort of like having a broken pair of headphones. All you have to do is tweak your finger right and maintain a specific pressure and you have the worlds second most unreliable machine gun. No paperwork, federal scrutiny, or general aim needed.

To bump fire you use the recoil of the weapon, which you hold loosely with one hand while you rest one finger inside the trigger guard, to bounce the weapon back and your finger off the trigger, allowing for a reset, and then use the forward bracing pressure you keep on the gun to pull the trigger again, giving you essentially full auto but bad.

Which is to say you can bump fire almost any weapon with functioning semi automatic capabilities. Benicio del Toro bump fires a pistol in Sicario 2. Can you be more accurate and just as fast by being very good with your trigger finger? Yes but that requires skill, patience, and marksmanship, all things that you can replace by bump firing.

In our cumulative quest to make things faster and worse we also decided that “holding the gun a bit weird” was too precise of a skill to have and invented ways to do that faster and worse. Called Bump Stocks, these devices answer the question “what if a stock wiggled uncomfortably?” And let you hold a firearm weird and badly more easily.

Are these things legal? Right now, yes. A year ago no. A few years before that, yes. The legal definition of a machine gun is a firearm or device that causes a firearm to fire more than one shot with a single action of a trigger. Some companies get cute with it and make triggers that fire once when pulled and once when released (each one of those being an “action”) but the law clearly states that because bump stocks and co. make you pull the trigger every time the gun fires a shot, they are not machine guns.

Unfortunately the fun police (regulatory bodies and several US states) disagrees. The argument of these parties before the Supreme Court and within their own local bans is that a machine gun is anything that sort of acts like a machine gun, rather than a device that meets the legal requirements to be classified as such. This sort of vibes based legislation has its own set of problems, but it meant that for about 7-8 years there if you wanted a bump stock you had to have it registered as a machine gun, at which point you might as well just get the real deal rather than buy a stock that sucks.

The pivotal bit here is that even if it’s just a machine gun “part” that converts an existing firearm to machine gun status, that part must be registered as a machine gun, legally counted by the fun police as a gun even though it can’t shoot any bullets on its own.