hotbarrel said:
Bump fire is as safe as the opperator.
I think that the jury is still out on bump firing.
Apparently, it is a very rapid form of semi-automatic fire, and IF the action has time to cycle properly (chambering the round and locking the bolt) EVERY SINGLE TIME a round is fired, then it should be as safe as any other form of semi-auto fire.
The only problem I have with it and trigger manipulators like the Hellstorm is: by rapidly manipulating the trigger, is there a chance that the sequence of disconnector grabbing the hammer, trigger letting up, and trigger hook grabbing the hammer somehow being defeated enough that the round can potentially fire out of battery before the bolt closes and locks?
This is not to say it will happen the next time you bump fire, nor will it necessarily happen the 10,000th time you bump fire. I also suspect that without an extremely high-speed camera showing the sequence of events in the gun's action as it is bump-fired will we ever know for sure whether it can fire out of battery while bump-firing. I suspect the truth is that some guns have time to cycle fully, and others come close to firing out of battery every time. Since the AK-47's action is not "timed" in the way a revolver is timed, there is no way to know if a particular rifle is safe to bump fire or not.
I'm hoping that some enterprising person with a little bit of experience in testing and using high-speed cameras will eventually answer this question...