LOL....
How did they intend to get all of them anyway? Go to every household/apartment in the US? Have owners ‘voluntarily’ give them up?
Mine is tied up ... er near buoy 43 at an undisclosed harbor.
And criminals who have a bump stock will immediately surrender or destroy them. What a joke.
I wonder if they’ll also pull the video’s that show how to make one out of bungee cords or force people with large belly’s to go on a diet.
DJT will not like to hear this.
Knock knock!! ..... ummm yes? Cops - turn over your bump stocks. Homeowner. Don’t have any. Cops, umm, KTNXBYE.
No the dog ate mine.
Seems we need a rehash of the old TV commercial:
SAFE BOATING IS NO ACCIDENT!
Trouble is..... this is a slippery slope.... bump stock... high cap mags... semi automatic rifles...
Since bump stocks required no background check and not paper work to purchase how will the ATF know if people complied or not?
The only thing I can think of is they can get the manufacturers to report the total number sold and compare that to the number turned in.
But from what I have read, a great number were probably tossed in the trash after one or two uses.
Apparently a lot of people thought they were worthless.
The President has made a major mistake. A mistake so big it is very likely to make him a one term president. There are an estimated half million bump stocks in private hands, possibly more. These people will be forced to surrender their private property worth hundreds of dollars or risk a major felony conviction and a ten year prison sentence. These half million people will NOT be voting for President Trump in 2020 you can bet the farm on that and probably nearly all of them did vote for him in 2016. Then they are going to have influence on other like minded people to the tune of maybe one or two people each. That's 1.5 million votes, gone. Take that much out and you lose the election. The bad news is it's likely to be way more than 1.5 million. No these people will not vote for Hillary. More than likely they are just going to stay home and that will throw the election to the dems.
Their was no need for the President to take this action. It was pure emotional placating. Taking this action through executive fiat is going to prove political suicide. It would have been ok if this went through the legislative process but it didn't. Worse yet there is no grandfather clause. Turn them in or a Swat team kicks in your door at Ten O clock at night and either kills you or arrests you to face a ten year prison sentence.
This is a major political blunder of the type that can destroy a nation. We have a system to ban things in this country. Legislation passes both houses of congress and gets signed by the president. We now have set a precedent that provides the foundation for a dictatorship. This MUST NOT STAND. If it does, it's goodbye America.
All the jokes aside. Bump stocks are fairly worthless to any serious shooter, or any shooter who intends to use them in a tactical environment.
That said, this is a terrible precedent. There would be no difference from the bump stock ban than if a Democrat president came in and issued an executive order deeming all AR-15 and AK-47 pattern rifles to be NFA items.
Blame Dick’s sporting goods for letting those mail orders get confused with all those mean, nasty, no-good rifles they destroyed!!
Babylon Bee writers must lurk on FR.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
I guess everyone will now have to turn in their rubber bands, belt loops, and thumbs since all three can be used to form a type of bump stock action.
America the thumbless. Whodathunkit.