re criminals machineguns in apr csd newshost stanford edu andy sail stanford edu andy freeman writes in article u uicvm uic edu jason kratz u uicvm uic edu writes people are getting killed by gang violence every day every single day i hear about more people getting killed by gang violence and see some of the weapons that are being confiscated is kratz claiming that he can reliably visually distinguish an m from an ar that he can see the difference between a semi auto and a full auto uzi that he can see the difference between the various versions some full auto some semi auto only of the m well let me see uzi no m no m ar maybe i remember there being a selector swtich on the ar if i remember correctly please correct me if i m wrong the switch would set to an off position or an on position because the gun ar is semi automatic wouldn t the m have a position for semi auto fire and full auto fire or maybe round bursts if this is correct wouldn t it be easy to distinguish each gun by this alone of course if the ar were modified to full auto fire i wouldn t think it would be that easy but i m talking about distinguishing between an unmodified ar and m how about the other guns do they also have selector switch to switch between semi auto and fully auto fire if so i d love to hear the details if only because they ll demonstrate that kratz is blowing smoke considering that one can design a gun so that it looks just like another gun yet have very different properties and that that s quite common most kids in my neighborhood were quite young when they figured out that my parents car wasn t much like richard petty s even though it looked just like it except for the paint job things must have been different with kratz actually it was pretty hard for the kids in my neighborhood to figure that out as richard petty lived in my neighborhood and left his stock car in the driveway sure it s on tv but why does that make a difference no it doesn t but that s irrelevant if visual inspection of the outside worked tv would be acceptable but since it doesn t the fact that it s just as good as seeing in person doesn t mean much well what about what i said above if that is correct i guess tv would be acceptable if you had a good enough picture and a picture of the lower receiver of the ar m andy gave kratz a chance to back down on this in private jason kratz didn t take andy s offer to back down in private
