Posted on 02/27/2018 7:31:01 PM PST by Simon Green
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he believes bump fire stocks can be effectively banned through regulation, teasing that an announcement from the Justice Department would be coming soon.
"We've had to deal with previous (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) legal opinions but our top people in the Department of Justice have believed for some time that we can, through the regulatory process, not allow the bump stock to convert a weapon from semi automatic to fully automatic," Sessions said at a gathering of state attorneys general in Washington.
"We've been working on that for some time. We'll have an announcement on that soon. We believe in that," he said.
Bump fire stocks, commonly known as bump stocks, are devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire at a more rapid rate. Investigators have said 12 bump stock devices were found in the hotel room where a shooter in Las Vegas fired on a crowd of concertgoers last year, killing 58 people.
The Justice Department in December announced that it was beginning the rule-making process that could allow it to reinterpret the legality of bump stocks. President Donald Trump sent a memo to Sessions ordering the department propose regulations banning the devices last week after the Parkland school shooting.
Some lawmakers and law enforcement experts have been skeptical that bump stocks could be banned through regulation without miring the ATF in lawsuits, pushing instead for a legislative fix.
The National Rifle Association has supported the ATF review of the bump stock and said devices like it should be subject to additional regulations, but has publicly come out against legislation that would ban the device. Congressional efforts to ban the devices in the wake of last fall's Las Vegas shooting haven't progressed.
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Sessions, always the Statist...
I hope out of Spite, some Mfgr. markets a bungie shoulder strap that “O look at that!” If you use it incorrectly, and against Mfgr.s directions, can actually be used as a bump-stock. Well Shazam, look at that ...
Conceding a freaking inch to these brown shirts is a mistake. It will never be enough. Not 1 inch.
Many have suggested that if the .500 S&W or .500 BMG were to be banned simply make the .499 round.
I don’t like bump stocks and I don’t like Jeff Sessions. Both are useless.
“Broccoli most affected.”
Yup. Speaking of vegetables, if that rat bastard Jeff Sessions is still in place covering for the O’muslim treason regime come election time in the fall, it will be a bloodbath for the Repubikans.
Who needs laws when you're a bureaucrat and you want to "regulate".
They should just hold a retirement party for Sessions. Put a funny hat in him, tell him he did a great job and conga- line him out the door.
The dipshit can then go back to sleep in his Davey Crockett onesie.
What about fast fingers?
Re: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he believes bump fire stocks can be effectively banned through regulation...”
Is this the same Jeff Sessions who thought the federal judiciary would allow him to arbitrarily declare DACA unconstitutional?
No, he doesn’t.
The legal definition of a machinegun in use to this day was created by a duly-constituted legislative body, the Congress of the United States, in the 1934 National Firearms Act.
Neither Sessions nor The Donald is a member of any legislative body and neither has any legislative authority. Any changes either of them would make to the NFA will be unconstitutional.
If the Trumpster is looking to cause Republicans to take a shellacking in this November’s elections and in so doing be rendered a “lame duck” for the remainder of his one and only term in office, I’d say he’s on the right track.
So you’re saying only congress can violate the 2nd amendment?
Btw, the only people I know that use the word ‘trumpster’ in reference to Trump are neverTrumpers.
...and FYI, Trump’s fate and America’s fate are inextricably intertwined. There’s no after Trump. He either gets the job done(defeats the left) or America is done.
Sessions needs to go on a permanent recusal.
whatever you do, for the love of all that’s holy, don’t let them know gatling guns are legal.
Unfortunately we now have a post-constitutional, administratve law system where Congress delegated its authority to the agencies of the Executive Branch.
Yeh Jeff why make Congress do its job when some mid management unelected bureaucrat is around to make law.
Came here to say this, well done! =D
Smart pick Trump. At some point down the road people will start wondering if you picked Sessions to intentionaly be a do nothing rat AG. It will start crossing people's mind's eventually. Might as well have eric holder in there.
The world upside down. Sad.
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