“We think the regulatory fix is the smartest, quickest fix, and then, frankly, we’d like to know how it happened in the first place,” Ryan (Wis.)
Very simple: "it happened" because "bump stocks" are legal under current federal statutes without being regulated.
As usual, too much political knee jerking going after a tragedy...which the knee jerking here gets slapped down. the BATF should follow what they decided before as it was the correct call following the law, and Trump being their boss should make that decision easier for them.
Don’t need to ban something only idiots would be interested in.....
Yes, lets increase the power of yet another bureaucracy instead of Congress doing their jobs.
maybe somebody showed them the rubber band bump or the belt loop bump.
who wants to ban belt loops or rubber bands ?
Republicans are tooo cowardly and corrupt to pass anything.
On any subject.
Toilet scum, all.
Punting again? Ha!
Ryan is the only place kicker I know, that could get his own team to help put a ball through his own goal from the opposing team’s 0.05 yard line.
Let me know when they make a Bump Stock that can produce controlled three round bursts.
I’ll take ten accurate hits using a 30 round Magazine over one inaccurate waste of Ammunition any day.
At this point, I don't think we even really know that "bump stocks" played a part in this event anyway.
If it becomes legislation, you can be sure that it will be worded in such a way to make all semi-auto rifles illegal - nothing about modifying them (already illegal) - nothing really about bump stocks or other gimmicks. You know it will be broadly worded to ban all semi-auto rifles, and the RINOS would all be voting for it.
Whoa... that is really vague language. A trigger job can increase my rate of fire...
Son: Don't worry dad. I'll be sworn in again as the Speaker of the House in a few weeks. With a Republican President I should be able to help effect historic changes
DACA repeal
Wall funding Illegal Alien Deportation
Obamacare
Tax reform
Son: Aren't you proud dad? Look what I've accomplished in the first nine months.
D1: Yeah nothing, absolutely NOTHING!
As he should. The bills were so poorly written that any trigger modifications at all to a rifle to lighten or shorten the pull could have been construed to be an illegal modification to 'increase the fire rate'.
In this case, delay is our friend.
We do not want knee jerk legislation. That is the province of the left. We expect, and should get, a measured, careful, response.
The media does not have the internal discipline to stay on one subject forever. in spite of their Democrat playbook.
Every day gained without Congressional action is a victory.
This is why we have a deep state
Our absolutely massive, unelected, Federal bureaucracy promotes, makes, and carries out the law as they see fit.
Last night on OAN’s “Daily Ledger” they showed a video clip of a guy with a semi-auto rifle “auto-firing” two 10-round mags as quickly as he could change them, simply by holding the butt loosely against his shoulder.
No “bump-stock” or any modification needed.
Speaker Ryan is a follower, not a leader. And he follows the RINO/USCC/Elites.
NO law and NO regulation!
These are all Ahole political hacks on the take...
they don’t give a rats ass damn about us, our country, our liberties or our constitution
we need to retire several of the very worst offenders in Congress... ASAP!
A little cowardice in Ryan is a good thing.
Fact is, today, constitutional or not, auto fire weapons are regulated. Waynes explanation that bumpfire devices blur the line between semi-auto and auto, putting all semi-auto guns at risk, makes sense in the short term. I don't want my rights to guns I legally own today to be jeopardized. Like just about everything else in life, avoid courts and judges on this, as things never work out better for anyone except the lawyers. I also agree that the longer any action can be delayed, the better, as the knee jerk responses will die down.
any device that “is designed and functions to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but does not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun.”
= = =
That would include a hand and finger strengthening device.
Better to have it regulated under existing law than to allow some new law to pass and possibly abridge more rights - or worse, we get another last-minute Hughes Amendment to it that screws everyone (just like with FOPA86.)