[Yo-Yo]

The whole bump stock thing was a red herring anyway. Serious gun enthusiasts think they are stupid. It was one of the rare Trump Caving moments, where he gave up, for all intentions, nothing. Bump stocks are amusing - but dangerous - toys, used primarily to wildly spray a lot of ammo in a fairly short period of time.

The Trump Administration's direction to the ATF to reclassify bump stocks, with the NRA's help, was an attempt to fend off more onerous legislation that was being generated that would potentially have banned not only bump stocks, but also any trigger modifications from factory specs whatsoever.

I understand why it was done, but I still wholeheartedly disagree with the move. It sets a dangerous precedence that anything that the ATF has previously approved through a determination letter can be rescinded at any time. Next on the list: Arm Stabilization Braces. There is wholesale circumventing of the SBR laws with AR "pistols" with stabilizing braces that for all intents and purposes are SBRs without an NFA tax stamp.

Also on the hit list: Binary triggers and trigger cranks.

[SecAmndmt]

Are those “tac triggers” on the ban list? I thought it was just bump stocks

[JamesP81]

“Also on the hit list: Binary triggers and trigger cranks. ”

Interestingly enough, the bump stock ban regulation specifically exempts binary triggers. What I take from that is the ATF knows bump stocks aren’t MGs and they didn’t want to be involved in this.

It also tells me that the ATF might actually be more on my side than my president is. They were complying with the law until Trump ordered them not too.