Posted on 05/21/2018 3:50:31 PM PDT by Simon Green
Under New Jersey’s new bump-stock ban, which was approved in January, residents were supposed to destroy or turn in their bump stocks by mid-April.
So far, New Jersey State Police say, they have not received a single one.
Months after a man used a bump stock to quickly mow down 58 people in Las Vegas, seven states now prohibit the sale and possession of the devices, which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire at the rate of fully automatic fire. Bans of bump stocks in Hawaii and Connecticut are currently awaiting governors’ signatures, and lawmakers in Delaware and Rhode Island are expected to approve bans soon.
Even though proposed bump-stock bans have stalled in more than a dozen states, gun control advocates who want to rid the country of the accessory are celebrating their existing statehouse victories. They agree with gun owners and police, however, that enforcing the bans will be a challenge.
It’s hard to know for sure, but Americans could own as many as 520,000 bump stocks, according to estimates from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Many of the devices are untraceable, in part because they don’t have serial numbers.
New Jersey is not the only state having trouble enforcing its ban. In Massachusetts, where residents had until February to surrender their bump stocks, State Police received just three devices. The Bay State’s ban, which passed in November, is a felony.
The first reported violation of the bump-stock ban in Massachusetts occurred in March, when police arrested a couple after discovering an arsenal of weapons in their hotel room. The bump-stock charge was one of more than three dozen gun charges in that case.
Bump-stock bans in Florida, Maryland, Vermont, and Washington have been approved but have not yet gone into effect.
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IMHO, this is BS.
If the shooter(s) had been a decent shot, and not used the bumpstock, he (they) could have killed more than 1,000 people in the same time frame, given the fact that 20,000+ people were corralled with no place to hide.
The bumpstock hysteria is nonsense.
The shooting was a horrible, domestic terrorist act and it never should have happened; but he only killed fifty-some people because he used a bumpstock and an AR-15 variant.
I believe it's closer to half the rate of fire: ~7RPS for a bumpstock or similar technique, and ~13RPS for a full-auto, M-16 type weapon.
Though, I could be wrong.
I dunno, man. Just watch the videos on it posted further down.
Is that a NY stock exchange or a NASQ stock?
Turn in your firewood...
Screw these morons...........
:)
amen! and I got nuthin here masaah
none of it controlled.
it’s just good for diversion, Looky over here while we move our troops and make YOU the target du jour.
Full Auto is for distraction.
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