I have taken the liberty of preparing the firing ground in advance. Before you can see four weapons, welded into metal platforms. The outlawed MG 42 used by the Wehrmach in the previous war, and Nogranian´s Rabid, Wiktor and Kotow. I hold in my hand rubber bands that will help simulate the pressure of a finger pressing a trigger down. Now let´s apply them to the guns in question. As you can see, the Wiktor is only possible to trigger at all if you attach one side of the rubber to the crank and another to a pole a few centimeters forward and the Kowtow only triggers once, but BOTH the MG 42 and the Rabid shoot until their respective magazines are depleted.
The Nogranian prosecutor, Nuke, stated three months ago in the Wiktor´s case that the weapon was legal because it requires a multidirectional continuous output for each round to be fired and that opinion was later incorporated into the verdict. Every single quarter rotation of the circle counts as distinct movement, as it I performed in a different direction. However, as shown by the rubber band test, neither the Rabid or the MG 42 have this attribute.
Article VI bans “weapons which in the user is able to continue the firing of said weapon without further input or intervention”. It is apparent that, adhering by the legal precedents, that input cannot qualify as simply maintaining pressure over the weapon trigger, as that would include the MG 42 as a legal weapon, since it only needs its trigger to be pulled down continuously to start dispensing death.
But wait, the Nogranian defense might say, our weapon needs further input apart from pulling the trigger in order to function. It is actually two movements: first you pull the trigger and then it resets, allowing a soldier to pull again the trigger and start the cycle again. However, the resetting is caused by the weapon, not by the soldier firing it, making the reset irrelevant from a legal standpoint, as the conventions only consider input produced by human action, as legal artifitial input would allow machine guns like the MG 42, forbidden by the Convention. If the reset is irrelevant, then the continuous pressing of the trigger in order to expel many projectiles is no different from the one exercised in the MG 42, a single unidirectional movement completely different from the Wiktor´s multidirectional quarter revolutions.
They might also claim that the Full-Reset is one of the three possible modes of the gun, and it is the responsibility of the soldier to choose to violate the law or not and even then, we have no right to ban a whole gun for one illegal characteristic. This is all bogus, as the Nogranian nation holds the ultimate responsibility for letting automatic weapons find their way into their soldiers’ hands. Additionally, legal fire modes are irrelevant to the legal status of the weapon if they are accompanied by illegal ones like the Full-Reset.
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