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Trump administration officially bans bump stocks
CNN ^ | 12/18/2018 | Laura Jarrett

Posted on 12/18/2018 8:16:12 AM PST by GIdget2004

The Trump administration is officially banning bump-fire stocks, senior Justice Department officials told CNN Tuesday.

Under a new federal rule, those who possess the devices, commonly known as bump stocks, will get 90 days to turn them in from the date that the final rule is published in the federal register, which is likely Friday, the officials said.

Bump stocks gained national attention last year after a gunman in Las Vegas rigged his weapons with the devices to fire on concertgoers, killing 58 people. President Donald Trump vowed to outlaw the devices soon after the tragedy, and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill urged him to back a permanent legislative fix.

But opposition from lawmakers and the National Rifle Association ultimately made a regulatory change the only realistic path forward to accomplishing the President's goal.

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To: NorthMountain

If the Hughes amendment does not ban automatic weapons, which it does not, it’s not relevant to the conversation. You may think you’re discussing this from a level of higher knowledge but you’re not. Automatic weapons are not banned in the United States. Period.


221 posted on 12/19/2018 6:22:37 AM PST by suthener
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To: laplata
Thanks for your service.

You still came across as a wise ass know it all punk.

Back at you soldier. Cheers.

222 posted on 12/19/2018 6:55:49 AM PST by Ron H. (Gab.ai)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. This is Trump doing the least thing possible to stop the gun control crowd.

You are incredibly wrong about this. Literally everything you said is wrong. Every single thing.

People tend to glaze over when someone starts talking about the details, but the details do, in fact, matter.

The ban claims that bump stocks are machine guns under federal law. Federal law defines a machine gun as: a firearm that can fire more than one shot per pull of the trigger.

A bump stock equipped rifle fires one shot per trigger pull. Period. Stop.

The ban is based on an objectively false statement. The claim made by the ban is as false as claiming the sky is green.

Donald Trump has rewritten the clear wording of Federal law to suit his purposes, and did so without any form of legislative approval. We have a word to describe a high official with the power to create and amend law unilaterally.

Such a man is called a king.

Donald Trump is President of the United States. HE IS NOT KING OF THE UNITED STATES.

Speaking personally, this makes the man a liar about stopping the attack on the second amendment and that's reason enough for me to be off the train, but that's a MINOR issue compared to this administrative ruling that so brazenly ignores the Separation of Powers. I can't let that slide. I am OK with bending some of the idiotic, stupid rules like the Dems do to make them suffer, but there are some lines that are not to be crossed. The clear wording of the Constitution is one of those lines.

Suppose the next Dem president decides that churches that preach that abortion is a sin are in violation of their tax exempt status, and now owe taxes? That's not what the law says, but the law also says a bump stock is not a machine gun despite Trump's DoJ saying it is. Or maybe the next Dem president will say that all semi auto firearms are machine guns because they can be bump fired without a bump stock. Perhaps the next Dem president will say that that all conservative political action groups do not have tax exempt status. Here's a good one: maybe the next Dem president will sign an order stating that all Christian schools and universities that don't hire transgender athiests are in violation of anti discrimination laws. All of those possibilities are as legally valid as Trump's bump stock ban.

This is no longer about bump stocks, people. Get it through your heads. In fact, I'll type it again, and I'll type slow so that everyone will get it.

This. Is. Not. About. Bump. Stocks.

This is about deciding what kind of country you want to live in. This is about whether you want to have a government with three separate branches and well defined powers, or if you would rather be ruled by a king.

I will not be ruled by a king, and I don't care what letter is by the name of the man who wishes to wear the crown and I don't care what his name is.

You "durrrr bump stocks are stoopid no one cares" people better hope and pray the federal courts do their jobs for once and slap this down hard and fast. If they don't, pandora's box is open and we are screwed.

I bend the knee to NO KING, except Jesus Christ.
223 posted on 12/19/2018 6:59:21 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Celerity

The grand part of our Constitution is that it grants us all the right to have an opinion and to express it no matter whether it is right or wrong just as your teacher had and did. I only partially agree with (only a little bit) with the opinion and premise stated but I’ll defend the teacher as well as you to have it and to express it.


224 posted on 12/19/2018 6:59:53 AM PST by Ron H. (Gab.ai)
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To: JamesP81

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225 posted on 12/19/2018 7:00:03 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: The Pack Knight
He's doing something so illegal even the Obama Administration refrained from doing it. That's not nothing.

Trump created more gun control in 2 years than Zero did in 8. Disgraceful. The man ought to know better.
226 posted on 12/19/2018 7:00:20 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: The Pack Knight

“For once, the unelected bureaucrats aren’t to blame. The ATF told Obama multiple times that the NFA doesn’t authorize them to ban bump stocks through regulations.

This comes straight from the top. This is happening because the President insisted. Don’t let Trump off the hook. “

This bears repeating. The BATFE repeatedly stated, correctly, it did not fall into their regulatory purview under the 1934 NFA and 1968 GCA. This is all Trump, period. The only reason the new regulation was issued is because Trump demanded it, so they tortured the English language sufficiently to get their regulation written.

For once, BATFE really didn’t do anything wrong here. This is Trump, period.


227 posted on 12/19/2018 7:03:31 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

“Because nobody has them......

It was a device that no one I know ever used or heard of until Vegas. I never heard of it pre Vegas.

Not the hill to die on”

How about Separation of Powers? How about the clear wording of the Constitution that the executive is not permitted to rewrite the law without congress passing a bill to make the changes? Is the Constitution a hill worth dying on? Is refusing to be ruled via fiat by a single man a hill worth dying on?

This isn’t about bump stocks.


228 posted on 12/19/2018 7:05:04 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: DMZFrank

I never said Bump stocks made a weapon automatic. They don’t. I said that pretty much they are a novelty that aren’t very accurate. In a live fire situation they aren’t t much good.

If you have that much experience with automatic weapons lay down on the ground and fire a bump stock then get back to me.


229 posted on 12/19/2018 7:08:44 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: suthener

“If the Hughes amendment does not ban automatic weapons, which it does not, it’s not relevant to the conversation. You may think you’re discussing this from a level of higher knowledge but you’re not. Automatic weapons are not banned in the United States. Period.”

All full auto firearms manufactured after May 19, 1986 are BANNED for individual possession. Period. Those manufactured before that date and that were on the NFRTR are grandfathered. They can still be possessed and transferred, at exorbitant prices (last I saw, a select fire M-16 has a market value of around $30,000).

Do not be obtuse by making a blanket ‘banned’ or ‘not banned’ statement. The details matter.


230 posted on 12/19/2018 7:14:04 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Note the last sentence of the 4th paragraph of my reply. The word “prone” means “lying down.” I did exactly that, with a bi-pod, and the accuracy performance with the bump stock in bump fire mode at 100 yards was 100% hits with all bursts on a man sized silhouette target.

Again, this was after one afternoon of practice. Maybe my experience enabled this performance, but I think that any person of normal dexterity and marksmanship ability could obtain similar results.


231 posted on 12/19/2018 7:16:50 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: DMZFrank

So Thanks for telling me I’m right. Nobody hates gun control more than me. I am making the point that Trump feels this is a nothing burger trade off. Which in reality it is. Even though I personally think everyone who wants a bump stock should have one. And it’s unlawful as a bump stock does not turn a rifle into an automatic weapon. Likely someone will present a court challenge.

I’m far more concerned about the ATF looking at parts kits for lowers.


232 posted on 12/19/2018 7:30:56 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“Likely someone will present a court challenge.”

GOA has already filed, and there is at least one other I can’t recall. I don’t think the federal courts really care about the law, however. They’ll rule however they want to rule and what the law says will not be part of their thought process.


233 posted on 12/19/2018 7:42:03 AM PST by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“I’m far more concerned about the ATF looking at parts kits for lowers.”

I agree fully with your statement. I have a Franklin Arms Armory binary trigger in two of my AR-15 lower receivers. To get them to run right in rapid fire, I did have to do a bit of tuning with different buffer weights and recoil spring swaps to prevent bolt carrier bounce, but once I got that sorted, they are better than a bump stock for simulated full auto fire. IO can run them reliably at close to a 700 round per minute rate.

I suppose binary triggers will be the next part that BATF deems top be a “machine gun.” I live in Georgia, and I thank GOD that that gun grabbing semi-comnmie, Stacy Abrams did not get elected here.


234 posted on 12/19/2018 7:44:50 AM PST by DMZFrank
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

> Quoting the constitution proves you know nothing about the law. You have to cite controlling Supreme Court opinions. <

I’m not quite sure why you had to be a little snarky there...but for me the wording of the Constitution matters. And that’s what I was discussing.

USSC opinions have great impact, for sure. But when it comes to discussing our freedoms (and the freedoms of the individual states), I’d guess that we’d have to look to the Constitution itself.


235 posted on 12/19/2018 7:50:52 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Ron H.

Lol Cheers and Merry Christmas.


236 posted on 12/19/2018 7:56:24 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Not from what others have said.

Merry Christmas.


237 posted on 12/19/2018 8:02:32 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: JamesP81

It is going to be challenged

I have no problem with that, it should be challenged.

But I am not going to lose sleep over it.


238 posted on 12/19/2018 8:03:53 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: JamesP81; NorthMountain

All full auto firearms manufactured after May 19, 1986 are BANNED for individual possession.

I did not say they aren’t. I said that if you want to buy an automatic firearm in the U.S. you can. Neither of you making the same argument can explain how that’s a ban. I just cannot understand the argument that you guys are trying to make. Regardless, at this point all any of us are doing is repeating ourselves, so I am going to bow out. Merry Christmas to both of you!


239 posted on 12/19/2018 8:12:51 AM PST by suthener
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To: DMZFrank

Actually the ATF is looking at binary triggers right now. I Wouldn’t use one because they are dangerous as chit but I’ll die to protect your right to play dangerous.

Mr. GG2 bobbed the hammer, polished the surfaces on the hammer and trigger and put in green springs on his AR15. But he doesn’t really trust the green springs so he’s going to install an Anderson SS fire control group with a blue spring kit for higher reliability.

My advice to people is stock up on kits now. Otherwise in the future it’s possible you will have to custom order every weapon so the parts are put on the rifles at point of manufacture.


240 posted on 12/19/2018 8:33:12 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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