Would a hand cranked gatling gun fall under the NFA (100% human powered)?
I know that a motorized version which uses a single trigger pull or button press is considered a machine gun, but I am unsure of the hand cranked version.
Second question (and this may be a bit more difficult to answer, or may require me going to the BATFE directly for clarification), but what if a servo, piston, hydraulic, or other device was used to physically pull a trigger or otherwise activate such a firing device on a semi-auto firearm in rapid succession in order to simulate the effect of a human pulling a trigger in rapid succession... But the servo, piston, hydraulic, or other device itself was in turn activated by a single button press, or by an alternate input method?
I'll give you two examples of what I am speaking of above.
EXAMPLE 1: A human controlled remote defense turret with a semi-auto AR-15 mounted. The operator can choose to fire more that one shot (fired in semi-auto) by pressing and holding the "fire" button on the remote turret control interface.
EXAMPLE 2: A human who has lost their limb is fitted with one of the newer brain controlled robotic prosthetics available. This person takes up shooting and uses a semi-auto firearm.
In EXAMPLE 2 it is a servo actuated robotic limb which is doing the actual pressing of the trigger and firing of the firearm, not the person themselves. The person is simply giving the arm the input required to tell it to move, much in the same way the person in EXAMPLE 1 presses the button telling the remote turret to fire.
Because these are mechanical devices being used to activate firearms, and because these mechanical devices can activate said firearms in such a way to "simulate" full-auto fire even when in a 100% semi-auto state, would using such devices turn said firearms into "machine guns"?
I know that a motorized version which uses a single trigger pull or button press is considered a machine gun, but I am unsure of the hand cranked version.
Second question (and this may be a bit more difficult to answer, or may require me going to the BATFE directly for clarification), but what if a servo, piston, hydraulic, or other device was used to physically pull a trigger or otherwise activate such a firing device on a semi-auto firearm in rapid succession in order to simulate the effect of a human pulling a trigger in rapid succession... But the servo, piston, hydraulic, or other device itself was in turn activated by a single button press, or by an alternate input method?
I'll give you two examples of what I am speaking of above.
EXAMPLE 1: A human controlled remote defense turret with a semi-auto AR-15 mounted. The operator can choose to fire more that one shot (fired in semi-auto) by pressing and holding the "fire" button on the remote turret control interface.
EXAMPLE 2: A human who has lost their limb is fitted with one of the newer brain controlled robotic prosthetics available. This person takes up shooting and uses a semi-auto firearm.
In EXAMPLE 2 it is a servo actuated robotic limb which is doing the actual pressing of the trigger and firing of the firearm, not the person themselves. The person is simply giving the arm the input required to tell it to move, much in the same way the person in EXAMPLE 1 presses the button telling the remote turret to fire.
Because these are mechanical devices being used to activate firearms, and because these mechanical devices can activate said firearms in such a way to "simulate" full-auto fire even when in a 100% semi-auto state, would using such devices turn said firearms into "machine guns"?