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 Reposted Examiner column    June 13, 2011 Gun Rights Examiner       Submit reddit Print Email Report “Triple-barrelled cannon found in Croatian fort is 'machine gun' forerunner designed by Leonardo Da Vinci,” the UK’s Mail Online reports . “The cannon was discovered in a Croatian fort, but only now has it been confirmed it was designed more than 500 years ago by the artist and inventor,” we are told.  “He was the first to invent a breech-loading machine gun with several cannons in rotation which meant soldiers could be firing one, loading another and cooling the third.” The report includes a sketch from 1480. OK, cool history.  And yeah, da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses from history.  But what has this to do with the right of the people to keep and bear arms? One of the arguments the gungrabbers use ad nauseum is that the Founders would not approve of the Second Amendment today because they could never have foreseen technological a...

 Record of complete dialog to be cited for an upcoming Firearms News article: America.gov AI Stonewalls Just Like the Real Thing ‘One front door for every single question’: Watch Trump tout A.I. push with launch of America.gov – ‘We’re putting power and control back in the hands of the people’ [ More ] I decided to give it’s invitation “to get simple answers only from official government sources” a try. I used a question raised in my recent AmmoLand article as a starting point. Here’s how it went: Where does ATF get the statutory authority from to limit proliferation of forced reset triggers? ATF administers the National Firearms Act and Gun Control Act. Those statutes, not a separate “FRT law,” are what ATF previously used when it treated some forced reset triggers as machineguns. Statutes ATF cited National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. §§ 5801–5872 Machinegun definition in the NFA/GCA (a weapon that shoots automatically more than one shot by a single function of the trigger), admin...