– how bump stocks work

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I understand what bump stocks do from reading up on them, but I haven’t found an explanation of how they work. They allow firing a semi-automatic weapon more quickly by using recoil to move the rifle back and forth (“bumping”) against the trigger finger. What I don’t understand is what is different in a bump stock compared to a regular stock. In my mind, I envision a big cartoonish spring in the bump stock that moves the rifle back forward after the initial kick from recoil. How does it work exactly?

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basically two things: first lets you press your trigger finger against a ledge to make it easier to keep in place while letting the gun move back into the stock with recoil, such that the trigger moves back and forth into your trigger finger from recoil

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