Posted on 10/05/2017 11:34:15 AM PDT by DCBryan1
The powerful National Rifle Association on Thursday backed "additional regulations" on devices that boost semi-automatic weapons' firing rates, like the tools used by the shooter in the Las Vegas massacre.
In a statement, the influential gun rights group's Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox urged the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to review the legality of so-called bump stocks. They stopped short of pushing Congress to pass a bill banning or regulating the devices.
Still, the NRA's support for more regulation of bump stocks could give Republican lawmakers more breathing room to pass a bill regulating them.
The statement came as bipartisan momentum for regulating the devices built on Capitol Hill.
Asked about the growing momentum for a ban on bump stocks, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president is "open to having that conversation," but stressed that Trump is "a strong supporter of the Second Amendment," and that any discussion of gun laws is premature.
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“Please, Sir, may I have a little more infringement?”
Springs can make any weapon fully automatic, .... QUICK BAN ALL SPRINGS!!!!
There are already files you can download and 3D print one. Think the horse may have already left the barn...
Instead of banning them how about we just increase the penalty for commit a crime with such devices on your weapons????
One of the reasons I don’t support the NRA.
They pull stunts like this every so often, and it’s self-defeatist.
dumbasses..hope they realize you can still “bump fire” almost any firearm without these so called “bump stocks”...retards.
Next terrorist will just buy a dozen or more semi autos and bolt them together on a frame, attach car door lock solonoids to each one and wire it all to a battery, every impulse fires everything at once, wired to a repeating relay they can launch a thousand round volley in that manner. And remotely.
Stupid to go into a negotiation by giving up nearly everything at the start.
Makes it a good time to buy bump stocks though.
They will be sold out shortly, if they have not already.
Propaganda terms ... All we really have is a bunch of communist politicians and Hollywood ignorami blathering on a subject about which they know nothing.
CAUTION: This is actually a ruse issue to attack and ban all semi-auto pistols and rifles. All semi-autos can be bump-fired without anything more than a finger.
The NRA went to the school of advanced negotiations hosted by visiting scholars Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
One might think a bright side would be letting all of the air out of Schmuckie’s balloon but the reality will be The Schmuck going for the next target, pun intended.
The more you know about bump stocks, the funnier this is.
Actually I support this.. A couple of months ago I saw a guy at the range with one. He wasn’t a small guy but he had a lot of trouble controlling the gun, and I thought it unsafe.
If the gun is dropped on it’s stock, it’s Katy Barr the door!
dumbasses..hope they realize you can still “bump fire” almost any firearm without these so called “bump stocks”...retards.
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You are right.
Need to regulate/confiscate fingers and shoulders.
don’t pass a law. Regulations are easily added and removed and can be written in a way that states can have a veto
Next terrorist will just buy a dozen or more semi autos and bolt them together on a frame, attach car door lock solonoids to each one and wire it all to a battery, every impulse fires everything at once, wired to a repeating relay they can launch a thousand round volley in that manner. And remotely.
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I logically conclude we need to ban cars, batteries, wires,
and large numbers!
And about automatic weapons anyway, why? I go to the local indoor range that rents them and muse at the people coming in and dropping $1,000 to fire one for a few minutes. At $0.50 to a dollar or more a round, it adds up really quickly. Maybe I count pennies and if I have to worry about the cost, just look elsewhere, but consider at 500 rounds a minute, which is slower than most automatic weapons. Using a 30 round magazine, swapping out fast, you get off 100 or so a minute. at $0.50 cents each, that is $50 per minute. Great for novelty but I'll stick with semi-automatic and hit the target where I aim instead of spraying the area. And have money to buy lunch or dinner afterward.
I knew this would happen, kinda had to. I think Trump signs off on this.
These dumb politicians don’t realize that by banning bump stocks they would be agreeing with the premise that an inanimate object is the problem. This would lay the philosophical groundwork for banning whatever these liberal turds dream up next! Hell, if somebody kills someone with a Corvette they would want to ban them.
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