A semiautomatic rifle that mimics the rapid fire of a machine gun is about to hit the shelves.
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The SFS BFR, made by Texas company, Slide Fire, is fed bullets from a belt, which gives it the potential to have thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The weapon will be available this autumn and will sell for $6,000, according to Brandon Renner, the sales and marketing manager for Slide Fire.
He said the gun ‘sprays like a fire hose’.
‘We recommend no more than 30 rounds on the belt, but one person could make it as big as they want.’
Automatic weapons, such as machine guns, are heavily restricted at a federal level for the general public by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986.
Automatic firearms also include short-barreled shotguns and short-barreled rifles. A machine gun can normally fire between 400 and 1,000 bullets per minute, or between 7 and 17 rounds per second.
But the manufacturers of the SFS, also called a ‘bump gun’, found a loop hole.
Of the pieces that make up a gun, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) only regulates the ‘receiver’.
It is the only piece that has a serial number and the only one that requires a background check to purchase.
Slide Fire's technology uses the recoil of the rifle shot to ‘bump’ the gun, speeding up the rate of fire without changing the gun's classification as a semiautomatic.
To be classified as a semiautomatic, the gun is only allowed to fire one round each time the trigger is pulled.
In a 2010 letter posted on Slide Fire's website, the ATF wrote: ‘We find that the 'bump-stock' is a firearm part and is not regulated as firearm under the Gun Control Act or the National Firearms act.’
ATF spokesman, Christopher Amon, told CNNMoney.com: ‘I can confirm that ATF did approve the device referenced in the letter and that the Slide Fire is legal.’
Slide Fire, based in Moran, Texas, already sells bump-stocks for $370 that speed up the rate of fire for semiautomatics.
The company also sells semiautomatic rifles that have already been accessorised for bump-fire, costing between $1,150 to $1,950.
But these guns use magazines, not belts, and thus have limited ammo capacity.
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A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, one of the largest gun sellers in America, said the company does not sell Slide Fire products, and will not be offering the belt-fed rifle.
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