Posted on 11/28/2018 7:10:28 PM PST by Simon Green
We were a tad premature with our recent post announcing the ATF’s final determination that bump fire stocks will now be considered and regulated the same way as machine guns. But we apparently weren’t off by much. According to the unimpeachable news source that is CNN . . .
The Trump administration plans to announce the long-anticipated federal rule officially banning bump stocks in the coming days, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
Given the President’s virtual order to the ATF directing the agency to reexamine their determination that bump fire stocks are perfectly legal firearm accessories under current law, it wasn’t a matter of if, only a question of when.
Under the new rule, bump stock owners would be required to destroy or surrender the devices to authorities. Members of the public will be given 90 days to turn in or otherwise discard their bump stocks, according to a source familiar with the final rule.
“Bump stocks turn semiautomatic guns into illegal machine guns. This final rule sends a clear message: Illegal guns have no place in a law-and-order society, and we will continue to vigorously enforce the law to keep these illegal weapons off the street,” a senior Justice Department official told CNN Wednesday.
You can read the not-quite-yet-final rule here.
As Luis Valdes wrote here earlier, this sets a terrible precedent that is almost sure to could be abused by future, less gun-friendly administrations to outlaw more than just range toys.
We’re living in interesting times.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
If this goes thru, and it looks like it will, the toothpaste is out of the tube.
WTF should PDJT do this stupid and totally ineffective ‘announcement’ when it will do no good at all...for anyone... and lose him a lot of support (and respect)...
this makes zero sense...constitutionally, legally, practically, politically... NADA... for nothing...
Stupid and silly if true. Stupid because you are needlessly getting your base angry. Silly because you can achieve the same result with a rubber band.
Gonna ban rubber bands, too?
Who cares. Bump stocks are about as useful as elephant foot umbrella stands. Ban ‘em both.
No way - I expect all the liberal judges to block this too. Of course they won’t because only illegal aliens have rights in this country anymore.
F Trump for this.
Stupid and silly if true. Stupid because you are needlessly getting your base angry. Silly because you can achieve the same result with a rubber band.
Everybody knows that was not a bump stock...
I have 5; one I use, and 4 just for my ‘collection’. Either of their BS ‘destroy or surrender’ mandates aren’t going to happen.
CNN IS THE SOURCE? Unreal that Freepers here get their panties in a twist and actually believed this crap. I thought it was common “law” that CNN is Fake News Central.
What a relief, since these Las Vegas style bump stock massacres have been happening monthly due to bumpstocks being available.
They do not turn firearms into automatic machine guns.
Definitions legally mean precise things.
It is literally impossible for a bump stock to turn a gun into an automatic weapon.
Further a bump stock, in order to work, males aiming that gun with the bump stock far less accurate and cannot be precisely aimed from the shoulder or the hip.
Outlaw rubber bands and belt loops too.
I don’t need a bump stock. If I ever do need one, it will take me five minutes to make.
If Trump can use this to confuse his detractors, on either side, then good.
Anyone can purchase a trigger mounted device that can effectively do the same thing and give you better accuracy. 3-4 shots per crank revolution. But this devicd too does not turn the gun into an automatic weapon.
Lets be clear and not lt them get away with lies they use to make uneducated people fearful and hateful at gun owners.
A smart lawyer will use this as a rare opportunity to overturn 922(o).
It’s still unconstitutional for POTUS unilaterally to amend an enacted law and it opens the door to any future POTUS declaring anything they want an NFA.
Yeah i know, you want one even though its a sh1t design.
Id rather have a trigger crank device if i wanted something that worked better.
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