What makes you qualified to have an opinion about gun control? A) Knowing the difference between a magazine and a clip, and bump stocks versus full automatic weapons. B) Ability to assemble and disassemble handguns and rifles. C) If I might get shot, I get to have an opinion.
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This is exactly where we can say that the public gets to express their preference for banning fully automatic weapons, and in response knowledgeable regulators *should* respond by banning bump-stocks as functionally equivalent.
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Regulators can't, because "machine gun" is defined by statute and there's no "functional equivalence" test. Technically, a shoestring enables bump fire - it's a technique, not a device.
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But....the people with the highest knowledge about guns have been lobbying and pushing for the current legislation. AKA the people who already knew what a bumper stock was without looking it up. And somehow that did not led to the best possible law?
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I mean, you do not need to be a champion of Gun Trivia Pursuit to say "copy paste the japanese gun law".
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