Posted on 12/18/2018 11:00:51 AM PST by John W
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.
The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official.
Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fired from his Las Vegas hotel suite into a crowd at a country music concert below, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
The regulation, which was signed by Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on Tuesday morning, will go into effect 90 days after it is formally published in the Federal Register, which is expected to happen on Friday, the Justice Department official said.
The official wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of the regulation's formal publication and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
In March, President Donald Trump said his administration would "ban" the devices, which he said "turn legal weapons into illegal machines."
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NRA caved pretty quickly on it, so whatever.
Idiotic move, and it will cost him politically.
At the risk of sounding like a heretic but I always thought the things were stupid anyway. Just like those huge shotgun magazines. They serve no useful purpose and just invite some deranged idiot to use one in a grade school somewhere and the next thing you know here come the liberals wanting to confiscate all repeating firearms (see Australia)
Not a firearm, not a part of a firearm.
A piece of plastic with an elastic strap that wastes ammunition and impedes accurate shooting.
You answered your own question.
They will never stop. It is never enough.
Until ALL guns are banned.
I had not even heard of a bump stock until a little more than a year ago.
I wouldn’t have banned them, but in the overall scheme of things, this is a nothing burger.
They are not now and never were a firearm and you could use your finger to do the same thing.
The next Democratic administration will be able to use precisely the same method to ban “assault weapons” and “high” capacity magazines by executive fiat.
this does not fit my definition of winning and I’m getting tired of it
Minute by minute. Hour by hour. Day by day. Week by week. Month by month. Year by year. The slow crawl of socialists. They will never stop and I see the Freepers are giving in as it doesn’t pertain to them. Maybe not in your lifetime guns will be gone by your children won’t have them.
What part of shall not be infringed is hard to read?
Gun-grabbing statists.
People who get too creative skirting Class 3 and the taxes that go with it.
The Trump Administration, particularly his awesome (sarc) DOJ, BATF, FBI, CDC, etc. Thank goodness we don't have anything more pressing to worry about.
(Distribute percentages accordingly.)
That’s a decent point.
As I see this. The bump stop is only good for rapid fire with no thought toward accuracy.
When I was in combat 48 years ago, I carried an M16. I don’t remember ever firing it in full auto or even 3 shot mode. Only the first round was ever on target and everything after that was wasted ammo.
Why? its a useless and dangerous toy...
Anyone know if they’re including binary triggers in this?
Let’s set aside the debate over the accuracy of that statement for the moment. The fact remains that:
1) This move alienates a significant portion of his core constituency.
2). Exactly the same logic could be used to ban “assault weapons“ and “high” capacity magazines by executive fiat in a future administration.
I don’t believe so.
Yet…
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