Note: DOJ has previously expressed skepticism about calls for it to do something about bump stocks in the absence of congressional action. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/politics/justice-department-bump-stocks-mass-shootings.html …https://twitter.com/Dalrymple/status/966055583106420738 …
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Here's our story summing all of this up —>https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/966083745710305280 …
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FYI, here is the 2012 letter in which the ATF determined that bump stocks do not effectively create machine guns: https://kinzinger.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bump_fire_2012.jpg …
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Presumably the ATF would have to change either its factual understanding of how bump stocks work or its legal understanding of what is a "machinegun" for purposes of federal law.
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Am I missing something, or is Trump's "banning all devices that turn legal weapons into machineguns" actually not applicable to bump stocks? They result in a higher rate of fire than a semiauto rifle, but they don't actually change the internal firing action to fully automatic.
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Is that just a president who doesn't have the best words, or is this deliberate flummery to avoid a real rule change?
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He didn’t tell the Justice Department to ban anything! He just keeps lying and lying!
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“Propose for notice and comment.” You mean an impotent bill that has all the teeth of a newborn baby, right?
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Only four months after the NRA itself said there should be stringent federal regulation on bump stocks in wake of Vegas mass murder. So late
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The time for half measures is over! The time for meaningless sops is over. We have taken notice, & we will
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