It isn’t an EO its an ATF rule.
A distinction without a difference. I need a Bill, a legally-drafted and signed Bill. Otherwise, nothing stops the Dems from banning all semis by 'an ATF rule'.
An ATF rule is even WORSE than an EO. It means unelected officials in agencies can make defacto law. EPA has been doing this illegally for decades and getting away with it. If that is the case that ATF is banning bump stocks, and I don’t believe it is, then that is BEYOND criminal behavior by the ATF to create law from whole cloth far beyond the power granted to them by the Constitution.
And an EO to ban bump stocks is unconstitutional as well. The President lacks the authority to do that. Only legislature can do that.
But the general population has gotten used to lawlessness by presidents abusing the EO. DACA was a clear violation of immigration law, but the silence of the US legislature allowed him to get away with that.
Presidents have been getting away with illegal EOs for several decades now. It is disgusting.