Posted on 04/18/2018 8:28:20 AM PDT by Simon Green
Embattled Texas-based Slide Fire Solutions announced on their website this week that they will no longer accept orders for their products next month and will shut down their website.
The company, the primary manufacturer of bump stock devices in the country, said in a notice that their website will go dark at midnight on May 20, with orders placed prior to that date processed and shipped.
“We thank you for your support,” said the statement simply.
The company, who holds itself as the “sole patent holder of bump fire technology” with numerous patents registered, is a defendant in numerous lawsuits over the use of bump fire stocks at the Route 91 Harvest shooting last October that left 58 dead and some 850 others injured. This came in conjunction with a flood of efforts, both legislative and regulatory, to ban the stocks and a host of other trigger devices at the federal, local and state level.
Since the news broke of the device’s use in the Las Vegas shooting and looming bans, demand has run high, with Slide Fire frequently announcing on their website that they were suspending new orders until they caught up. The company has also removed the list of retailers who stock the devices from their site – a move noted by the Brady Campaign, a gun control organization behind one of the class action suits.
Slide Fire, based in Moran, Texas, has been granted numerous patents for their stocks since 2000 and has defended their niche in the marketplace, forcing competitor Bump Fire Systems out of business two years ago after a lengthy court battle. Approved by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in 2010 under the Obama administration, the bump fire stock marketed by Slide Fire is pitched to increase firearms accessibility for those with limited mobility among other uses.
The company has often marketed the stocks as a wholly American piece of gun culture.
I don’t think bump/slide stocks should ever have been legal. Now all 2nd Amendment rights people are forced to defend them because to give them up now means a victory for the gun-grabbers.
I don’t, personally, own a slidefire bump stock and don’t think they offer any utility but it still sucks that a hate group like the Brady campaign can force ANY American inventor, entrepreneur and patent holder like Slidefire can essentially be forced out of business by leftist litigation and a hate campaign.
Yes it does suck. I don’t own a slide fire because rubber bands are cheap and work better when I feel like wasting ammo (which is rarer than rare).
Why do you think that they should not have been legal?
Grrrr.
“shall not be infringed.”
Select-fire M4s should be legal, making bump stocks moot. _Heller_ has an interesting comment about that, which a smart lawyer could use to overturn 922(o).
Because full-automatic weapons are for the most part illegal. Bump stocks essentially convert semi-automatic rifles to automatic. I know people here say they don't, but I have seen the Youtube videos of people firing with bump stocks, and they may as well be firing an automatic weapon. I do not like to defend bump stocks, but I don't want to surrender to the gun-grabbers either, because of their tendency to incrementally demand that we surrender more.
I would suggest doing more than watching videos. The “bursts” from a bump stock basically have no accuracy because of how unstable the bouncing stock makes the shooter’s shoulder as a platform. The closest they come to emulating full automatic is burst fire (three shots in one trigger pull usually) because if you shoot a bump stock any more than three times consecutively the gun either falls out of your shoulder socket due to all the movement or the barrel ends up aimed either at the sky or the ground right in front of you (not ideal for ricochets) that’s why the sounds taken via youtube video at the Las Vegas shooting DO NOT sound like any bump stock I’ve ever seen or used. I have only shot one with the AR-15 platform. I’ve heard some bump stocks are somewhat more controllable with the AK-47 platform.
They, in no way, convert semi-autos into automatics.
Have you ever fired an automatic rifle? I have done so quite a few times and the rate of fire is totally different and the automatic, while sometimes difficult to keep trained on target, is more accurate than the Slide-Fire. The Slide-Fire is for pretend and is not very effective.
As written here on FR many times after the Las Vegas murders anyone with a modicum of training could have killed more people with a standard semi-auto with good optics than that stupid Slide-Fire.
I have never fired an automatic rifle or a semi-automatic rifle with a bump stock. The ineffectiveness of the bump stock is immaterial, IMO. Sure, it is not an actual conversion to full auto. But is is accurate enough and fast enough for a guy like the Las Vegas shooter to mow down dozens of densely packed people in a short amount of time. Aside from shooting into crowds or doing some Youtube target shooting videos, I don't see much use in bump stocks. And yet here we are defending them from the gun-grabbers.
I understand that bump stocks were first invented to allow handicapped individuals to fire a gun.
Would the Americans with Disabilities Act apply here?
As long as the Class III license is paid, full auto is legal.
Banning one item always leads to banning other items. The Camel's nose in the tent.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." [Samuel Adams]
You are the second person on FR to make the same ignorant comments. I wish you people would educate yourselves to some level before commenting. Your first sentence is wrong. Just plain wrong. Spend a minimum of about $8,000, fill out some paperwork, get finger prints, send to ATF with $200, and you can own an automatic firearm. Your second sentence is wrong. The only legally defined method of creating an automatic firearm is by modifying the mechanical operation of the firearm. The ATF ruled several times that bump stocks are not regulated under current law. The gun grabbers will always want more. They will never stop. Bump stocks are simply the issue du jour. Don’t give them an inch.
The reason they are legal is that they do not meet the technical language of the law defining a machine gun.
The government is trying to ban them without updating the law.
People on both sides are afraid of that process.
Therefore the lying botch of the updated regulation.
Eight grand? The cheapest I’d heard of was about fifteen grand for one of those relics.
I’ll enjoy my binary trigger. More accurate.
God forbid Democrats don’t like your company. Stoke of a pen and you are ruined!
Way to go America! Lets go bomb some random country!!!
USA!
USA!
USA!
A friend of mine is waiting for his tax stamp on a MAC 10; he’s paying $8,000. That’s about the cheapest I’ve heard of. He’s buying it from a friend of his so he may be getting a discount. Yeah, he has the money to spend on a toy.
I think machine guns should never have been extremely restricted. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you people not understand???
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