Who could have seen this coming?
i trust the NRA and their strategy."let ATF take another look."
Um, well, no. According to the ATF, they're perfectly legal. How do they then become illegal? What changed? Lots of people, including some gun owners, think there is no practical reason for 30 round magazines or AR rifles to exist either. Do you support banning them? There doesn't have to be a practical reason for something to exist.Bump stocks never should have been lawful to begin with. There is no practical reason for them to exist.
I strongly support 2nd Amendment and own a number of firearms, belong to a gun club ( outdoor pistol and rifle range, trap, skeet, sporting clays, 3 gun, 5 station), and CC. However, sometimes you have to do the right thing. Fixing a wrong does not mean you are giving in it means your are using your brain.
They are not but they increase the rate of fire enough to confuse people as they sound as automatic weapons.Full auto firearms are regulated and controlled. Bump fire and trigger cranks aren't full auto. Period. End of story.
Maybe before anyone runs for office they should have to pass a test on the Constitution , what their oath means and agree to being thrown out of office if they violate either one .First of all a bump stock or binary trigger is not a gun or a gun part. If it was it would fall under the NFA already. Its an external device used to activate the trigger quickly. Technically, its not even a Second Amendment issue. Someone is sure to post I'm talking technicalities, technicalities is the only reason they are around now.
They are indefensible in any debate on TV. If the NRA got up there and argued they are not a machine gun the other side is going to pull up countless videos on Youtube and it is going to look and sound like a machine gun to the public. The reason for this is it looks and sounds like a machine gun. The mechanics of it doesn't matter, the optics are just awful.
Frankly defending them is dumb politics. This is not the last time we will see them used in this manner. Las Vegas showed the way. The next active shooters are going to have them as well and when they say the NRA wants active shooters to have machine guns it would ring true. Pointing out that any semi-auto could do the same thing with a shoe string is going to hurt more than it helps. Because the argument then becomes maybe we should get rid of semi autos.
Maybe we should just face the fact that they are dumb things that even when used legally are pretty stupid and when used wrong are very dangerous.