Status of Bump Stocks

[Mr. Goodbar]

To all you people who say that while today it's just "bump stocks" that get banned by ATF's administrative rulings, TOMORROW it could be all semi-autos (the slippery slope argument):

Don't you realize that bump fire stocks are a new invention? They're only 10-15 years old, and most normal (casual) gun owners didn't even realize they existed until the Las Vegas massacre in 2017. Bump stocks weren't talked about in Guns & Ammo magazine, or The American Rifleman, or more tactical magazines intended for survivalists and cops and mercenaries. Bump stocks were and always have been what the law calls an "outlier" -- an extreme example on the very fringes of some group or classification.

Congress intended NOT to have semi-auto guns classified as machineguns in the NFA. Congress knew damned well what semi-auto guns were. They'd been on the market for at least 40 years at that point, and they were getting more and more popular every decade from the early 1900's onward. Congress knew that all you had to do was pull the trigger fast to make a semi-auto gun fire fast. How in the world can you say ATF is going to ban semi-autos by reclassifying them as machine guns when Congress could have done that but chose NOT to, and created the best wording they knew of at the time to draw a line between unrestricted semi-autos and tightly restricted full autos?

The "slippery slope" of ATF reinterpretation of key NFA terms might apply to binary triggers, which were also unknown to Congress, and even gun experts, back in the 1930s. That could happen, one day. But not all semi-autos, with normal triggers.

 

[BIKER13]

any bumpstocks for sail?

 

[palmettomoon]

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Yup....

 

[fattboyzz]

any bumpstocks for sail?

bump what ?

 

[Psilloh1]

any bumpstocks for sail?

Check with the ATF?...

 

[RomeWolf]

https://babylonbee.com/news/tragic-...k-in-nation-suddenly-lost-in-boating-accident

 

[300_whisper]

Bump stocks = Bad

Orange man = Bad

Orange man = bump stocks?!

 

[greg vess]

View attachment 2069878 bump what ?

Is that a bump stock or a bump shock?

 

[Cataula]

You can argue till you are blue in the face, they are illegal and are not coming back. Don't matter how they work.

 

[300_whisper]

You can argue till you are blue in the face, they are illegal and are not coming back. Don't matter how they work.

It’s only illegal if you get caught.