October 1, 2018. Hope you Floridians followed the law.

[zeebaron]

I think this is one of those things that is pretty much useless in practical reality unless society falls apart. But then you might as well just keep handy some instructions to convert the firing system of your firearm to a more useful mode of operation. It's not like it's secret knowledge.

It doesn't need a reason..

I own shit simply because it brings a smile to my face. What does a chunk of the Berlin Wall? Nothing. I still own it.

Nail on the head. It is not about need and it never has been. I keep seeing again and again, "Oh I didn't like bumpstocks anyway, they're just a dumb gimmick!."

That is not the point. You personally not giving a shit about bump stocks being banned is the same as any fudd not giving a shit about AR bans. It's about keeping whats left of our rights as granted to us by the Constitution, but getting a hair up your ass over "stupid gimmicks". I think bump stocks are dumb too but I never went on any of the crusades about them that I see others do as if its very existence is beneath them.

I don't see anyone here volunteering to publicly risk their livelihood to protest bump stock possession.

[Skoll]

It doesn't need a reason..

I own shit simply because it brings a smile to my face. What does a chunk of the Berlin Wall? Nothing. I still own it.

Nail on the head. It is not about need and it never has been. I keep seeing again and again, "Oh I didn't like bumpstocks anyway, they're just a dumb gimmick!."

That is not the point. You personally not giving a shit about bump stocks being banned is the same as any fudd not giving a shit about AR bans. It's about keeping whats left of our rights as granted to us by the Constitution, but getting a hair up your ass over "stupid gimmicks". I think bump stocks are dumb too but I never went on any of the crusades about them that I see others do as if its very existence is beneath them.

I don't see anyone here volunteering to publicly risk their livelihood to protest bump stock possession.

Of course not. So it goes with almost everything else in modern life.

[rentprop1]

yeah lets all write letters and call our congress critters

like that ever does any good

[zeebaron]

yeah lets all write letters and call our congress critters

like that ever does any good

It makes you feel like you've done something, which is entirely the point.

[Chigger]

Gotta love the bill of needs slugs.

[dammitgriff]

yeah lets all write letters and call our congress critters

like that ever does any good

You’re right. It’s as useless as voting!

[Slartibartfast]

looks like it's just a matter of time before they're gone everywhere


Trump Says Federal Ban on Bump Stocks Is in Its 'Final Stages'


http://fortune.com/2018/10/01/trump-bump-stock-ban/

President Donald Trump said Monday his administration is nearing a ban on bump stocks, the gun accessory that can make a semi-automatic weapon function like a machine gun. While machine guns are illegal, this accessory is not.

“We’re knocking out bump stocks,” Trump told reporters, according to Reuters. “We’re in the final two or three weeks, and I’ll be able to write out bump stocks.”

His statement comes on the one-year anniversary of the country’s deadliest shooting, when 58 people were killed at a Las Vegas country music festival.

Trump first moved towards a ban last spring, after reports revealed the Las Vegas shooter had bump stocks on at least a dozen of his weapons, greatly increasing the lethality of his attack.

The National Rifle Association, which typically opposes gun control efforts, said, when the bump stock ban was proposed, that it would not fight it.

“Devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” the group said last spring, according to NBC News.

In March, the Department of Justice proposed a rule outlawing the manufacture, import, and possession of bump stocks. The change would also require any current bump stock owners to surrender or destroy the device.

The proposal had to go through a required comment period, which ended in late June.

“We are now at the final stages of the procedure,” said Trump, Reuters reports.

[rentprop1]

yeah lets all write letters and call our congress critters

like that ever does any good

It makes you feel like you've done something, which is entirely the point.

mailing a box of poop has an even more warming effect, just sayin ...

[Miami_JBT]

A bumpstock was always a mistaken loophole that was corrected. Next correction, arm braces. An AR-15 is not a loophole waiting to be corrected. Big difference. GARY.

Loophole.... LOL

You mean something not regulated by law yet. Such a free thinking mindset. May your chains rest lightly.

[Skoll]

Gonna wish you died on that bump stock hill when match triggers are the next thing they go after.