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so today's videos gonna be a little different and slightly more serious there's been a lot of talk in the news lately about something called a bump stock now where I live in Utah shooting guns is a fairly recreational activity I would say Texas Utah and Idaho have plenty of guns distributed between the general population and it's kind of like a hobby thing people go out to shoot guns it's even a great date idea and I've owned plenty of guns in my life and my family and it's just kind of like part of the custom and part of the culture but lately there's been something in the news called a bump stock and how it attaches to a semi-automatic rifle now I've never used a bump stock before but I am curious as to how easy it is to install what's it made of and what it can actually do so yesterday I went out and bought an ar-15 this particular setup is about 1,500 bucks I walked into a local sports store picked out the gun I wanted they did a background checked and I walked out of there so the thing about an ar-15 is that it's pretty customizable you can swap out the barrels you can swap out the lowers you can put scopes on the rails you can swap out the back stock and this stock part is what we're gonna be talking about today because the bump stock replaces the handle of the gun and the stock of the gun and allows you to fire at an automatic rate with a semi-automatic weapon I'll explain what those mean in a second so while I'm pretty familiar with guns I am NOT a gun expert by any means I literally just bought this gun yesterday and this video is purely to just see what a bump stock is capable of doing after major tragedies like the one in Las Vegas or the one in Texas people call for stricter legislation on guns in general and particular these bump stocks but only by learning about them and knowing what they're capable of can we make the most educated decision I was able to purchase a bump stock of my own these are available online from multiple websites and local classifieds this one cost me about $400 so we're gonna install it on the ar-15 right now and see what it can do so right now we're gonna shoot this several times right now the bump stock is not in place and we're gonna see how many rounds we can get off without the help of a bump stock so this gun is semi-automatic so every time I pull the trigger there's going to be a bullet leaving out the end of the chamber so I'm gonna cock back the gun that puts a bullet into the chamber safety is now off and I'm ready to fire I was relatively quick so this is a 40 round clip and so every time I pull the trigger 40 times I can lose all the ammo inside of that clip and that was pretty fast you can get a lot of shots off in a pretty short amount of time so now let's install the bump stock and as a noob I've never shot with the bump stock before we'll see if it's possible to shoot faster than it is with just a straight trigger so how bump stock work is actually incredibly simple the gun slides around inside of the stock and uses the recoil of the gun to shoot more bullets this piece is pretty important I'm a right-handed shooter so I use my right hand to pull the trigger and so I'm going to take this piece of plastic slide it onto the gun and it blocks the trigger on one side so when I grab the gun I rest my finger on that piece of plastic on the far side and then using the gun I can pull forward with this hand my finger connects with the trigger pulls it and then the gun will bounce back and forth and each time it hits my finger it'll shoot another round and since the gun is doing it all automatically it can pull the trigger faster than I can pull the trigger hence the full auto function of the bump stop so these are the bullets right here we have a five five six and it's just a whole box of these things these things are about 40 cents apiece so I also got these clips these clips hold 40 rounds they're about $20 each and I can take little bullets and just pop them into the top and then the whole clip just slides into the gun when you're ready to shoot this is my first time shooting with the bump stock so we're gonna see how it goes I got the clip in place the stock is functional safety is off we're loaded and let's see how this works that was that was faster than I expected okay so that shot much faster than I anticipated obviously and each time I shoot one of these clips by the way it's about 16 American dollars 16 US dollars so it's a lot of ammo going very very quickly what we're gonna do right now is I'm gonna do it one more time but this time we're gonna shoot it in slow motion using a galaxy s 8 and you can pay attention to the stock and the trigger and watch how the gun is recoiling inside of the bump stock so we can get a better idea of how it works so watch here as my hand pulls forward on the barrel of the gun this brings the trigger up to my stationary trigger finger my finger never moves but still connects with the trigger due to the forward motion of the gun the gunman fires and the recoil brings the gun back to my stationary finger over and over causing the trigger to be pulled again and again very quickly until I run out of ammo accuracy is severely compromised but accuracy isn't really the point of full auto here's the semi-auto firing rate one more time my finger was pulling the trigger manually and here it is again with the currently fully legal buff stock installed on the ar-15 I'll be pretty honest I'm pretty blown away with how well the bump stock works and how much Emma can throw out of the gun as fast as I did I was not expecting that now as far as all the controversy goes I'm not gonna jump into that on this channel personally I think that you know guns are a great hobby but not everyone in the world is sane and they can turn something good and fun into something absolutely terrible not just with guns but with cars vehicles anything can be turned into something bad like always you're more than welcome to comment about this stuff in the comment section right below this video but make sure to keep it a conversation and not an argument let's keep it constructive and productive so even though this video was quite a bit different than what I usually do on this channel I think it was interesting and useful knowledge is power and now we know what bump stocks are capable of what they can do and we can make more educated decisions on whether they should be banned or just kept in existence let me know what you think down in the comments and keep it constructive and not destructive we're here for the conversation thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around