On this one issue, the BATFE followed the law to the letter. As mentioned, bump-fire stocks were purposely engineered to fall on this side of the 1934 NFA.
Those complaining about it make as much sense as those who complain about a driver going 69 MPH in a 70 MPH zone - they are complaining about those who OBEY THE LAW.
As for the NRA, they have neither the guts nor the sense to be on the right side of this issue. It isn’t about bump-fire stocks - it is about whether an inanimate object causes crime. I thought that this had been settled when the NRA actually did the right thing by stopping the renewal of Clinton’s AWB. Next, after bump-fire stocks are gone (or regulated under the NFA), the gun-grabbers WILL be coming after normal-capacity magazines and semi-autos...so we’ll be right back where we were in 1994-2004.
Our only hope is that the Dems/gun-grabbers over-reach. They appear to be starting the process, by tacking on a 3-day waiting period for handguns (which played exactly no role in the Las Vegas massacre, except possibly to shoot the purported perp (and he acquired that particular gun well before a 3-day waiting period would have stopped him from using it there).
Spot on!