Bump stocks

[stevenash]

Just heard from a reasonably reliable source that bump stocks were approved by the ATF in 2010 during the Obama administration.  Just trying to figure out if this will be blamed on Bush because it was way too early for blaming Trump.

[LumRaiderFan]

I believe that is true...can you imagine the field day the media would have had if this happened under Bush or Trump?

 

[stevenash]

would have been front page of every major newspaper and MSNBC would have done a 72 hour non stop special on it

[westend1]

These things were created and patented in 2010.  The ATF didnt approve anything.   Because it is not a firearm, they refused to act.  Like silencers, it takes a tragedy to realize how dumb the idea really is.  Even the NRA is scared of this thing.

[77]

So Obamas ATF didnt act on it glad we can agree!

[stevenash]

40 minutes ago, 77 said:

So Obamas ATF didnt act on it glad we can agree!

How can that be? That administration was so insightful, so forward looking, so sophisticated, so compassionate, so engaged, so civil.  It's gotta be Bush's fault.

[new tobie]

6 minutes ago, stevenash said:

How can that be? That administration was so insightful, so forward looking, so sophisticated, so compassionate, so engaged, so civil.  It's gotta be Bush's fault.

I miss George W. right now!

[stevenash]

12 minutes ago, new tobie said:

I miss George W. right now!

Not as much as you miss JFK and WJC, those two models of decorum.

[westend1]

But you guys do agree that the slide stock is a dumb idea?

[77]

you can ban it and I can assure you  any machine shop can build it and sell it on the side! We dont enforce laws on the books and no laws will stop these sickos!

[BS Wildcats]

3 hours ago, westend1 said:

But you guys do agree that the slide stock is a dumb idea?

Yes

[PhatMack19]

10 hours ago, westend1 said:

These things were created and patented in 2010.  The ATF didnt approve anything.   Because it is not a firearm, they refused to act.  Like silencers, it takes a tragedy to realize how dumb the idea really is.  Even the NRA is scared of this thing.

You do know that silencers don’t really make the gun silent right?  I hate to break it to you, but James Bond isn’t real life.  

[Hagar]

Here's Dianne Feinstein's solution.  There's an old saying about 'letting the camels nose under the tent'.  Never, ever, trust a Democrat on gun legislation.  

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[LumRaiderFan]

9 hours ago, REBgp said:

Here's Dianne Feinstein's solution.  There's an old saying about 'letting the camels nose under the tent'.  Never, ever, trust a Democrat on gun legislation.  

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That's why the NRA and pro-gun lobbyists are so hesitant to give in even when it seems extreme...give and inch and they will try to take a mile.

Once a ban on any device is in place, all that is necessary to ban other devices is make them fit the definition in the legislation.