Posted on 03/23/2018 2:39:34 PM PDT by Simon Green
President Trump on Friday announced that the Department of Justice would issue a new rule banning bump stocks.
In a tweet, Trump announced that he was directing DOJ to reverse a 2010 decision by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) that classified bump stocks as firearm parts so the devices could be banned under current laws that prohibit owning fully automatic weapons.
Trump blamed the legalization of bump stocks on the Obama administration.
"Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period. We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns," Trump tweeted.
The decision Friday follows a letter sent by GOP senators in October urging the administration to review the decision after a mass shooter used the device in killing 58 people at a country music concert in Las Vegas.
Bump stocks are used to modify semi-automatic weapons so they mimic automatic counterparts.
"Unfortunately, we are all now keenly aware of how this device operates and believe that this renewed review and determination will keep our citizens safe and ensure that federal law is enforced," the nine Republicans wrote last year.
Fully automatic weapons have been banned in the U.S. since 1986, but bump stocks were described by the ATF in 2010 as "a firearm part and is not regulated as a firearm under the Gun Control Act or the National Firearms Act.
So you want us all to smile and salute? Their side never betrays them.
Hey, Trump, why don’t you tell us what REALLY happened in Las Vegas the night of October 1st?
The “official” story makes no sense at all. And Andrew McCabe was put in charge of the investigation? Yeah, right.
The GOP certainly greased the skids. Liberally.
Looks like President Biden in 2020. Maybe we’ll be able to keep our shotguns.
Of course, thats true, but this ban becomes the path finding device to further bans. Next up, semi-auto anything.
Only your musket.
That's one mighty big IF ;-)
Yeah...I too remember when FR was lit up with "Carl Rove you magnificent bastard!" comments.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. BOHICA.
One of the very best and very worst things about conservatives is that we're like herding cats.
Trump is starting to remind me of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arrived with good ideals, but damaged ego leads them to tilt left because they want to be liked.
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry.
This is absurd. Machine guns are precisely defined by law. ATF correctly determined that bump fire stocks do not convert a semi auto into a machine gun. If Trump wants to ban bump fire stocks the proper method is through congress.
I cant wait to see the excuses offered by the Trump is God crowd.
I don’t remember signing up for this shit.A piece of plastic is the problem? Really..an inanimate object? Next stop AR 15ville. And then the criminal budget today? Whoa Nellie.
“Trump blamed the legalization of bump stocks on the Obama administration.”
Jesus Christ ...Obama was better on guns? And he legalized them in the national parks too. What have we got on our hands here folks? Is Ivanka sitting on daddy’s lap?
I’m shocked to see President Trump go Left so much.
From my dead cold hands
It may very well come to that given the amount and intensity of cognitive dissonance on parade over the 2nd Amendment.
“First we give the democrats everything they want and then we nail em.”
Seems more like “ First we give the democrats everything they want and then we nail ourselves.”
I don’t think anyone here as said anything even close to comparing Our President Trump to Our Holy Lord. That is absurd.
Furthermore, I think it equally ridiculous and shameful of the pearl clutching fickle fair weather supporters who at every turn complain they will never vote for President Trump or whoever again. Just because of they did or didn’t do something or say something, etc.
I mean REALLY?!!!
Would you RATHER have HILLARY, JEB, RUBIO, DWS? I mean REALLY?!!!! What FOOLS. Or PLANTS, OR TROLLS.
Certainly someone who would rather have the worst of the worst if they can’t get every little thing their way. There is a swamp monster that is being fought. Someone wants to throw in the towel because something isn’t going our way? That doesn’t make sense. Anyone who spouts stuff like that is either ignorant, too tired to think things through, or intentionally trying to totally destroy our Country.
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