[Georgia Girl 2]

Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. This is Trump doing the least thing possible to stop the gun control crowd.

[The Pack Knight]

Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. This is Trump doing the least thing possible to stop the gun control crowd.

He's doing something so illegal even the Obama Administration refrained from doing it. That's not nothing.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody.” <<

Precisely!

We want our rights back, and no “bump stock” leads in that direction.

[laplata]

Right on!

[Ron H.]

....Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. ......

So you purport to speak for all legitimate gun owners in America then? Sorry but you only represent your own ignorant self!!!

[TheDandyMan]

Bill of Rights, not Bill of Wants, as if you could possibly speak for the millions of law-abiding Americans who may choose to own what was until today a legal item...How many are now on the cusp of felony because Trump went ahead and unilaterally did something not even Obama did?

And yet on this thread I see quite a bit of rallying around and minimal using. If Obama has done the exact same thing these same people would be crapping their livers out on the floor in rage.

[suthener]

“Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. This is Trump doing the least thing possible to stop the gun control crowd.”

Yep, this’ll stop them. The liberal fight to ban guns is over! Thank God we’ll never have to have this fight again.

[JamesP81]

Much ado about nothing. Who even wants a bumpstock? Nobody. This is Trump doing the least thing possible to stop the gun control crowd.

You are incredibly wrong about this. Literally everything you said is wrong. Every single thing.

People tend to glaze over when someone starts talking about the details, but the details do, in fact, matter.

The ban claims that bump stocks are machine guns under federal law. Federal law defines a machine gun as: a firearm that can fire more than one shot per pull of the trigger.

A bump stock equipped rifle fires one shot per trigger pull. Period. Stop.

The ban is based on an objectively false statement. The claim made by the ban is as false as claiming the sky is green.

Donald Trump has rewritten the clear wording of Federal law to suit his purposes, and did so without any form of legislative approval. We have a word to describe a high official with the power to create and amend law unilaterally.

Such a man is called a king.

Donald Trump is President of the United States. HE IS NOT KING OF THE UNITED STATES.

Speaking personally, this makes the man a liar about stopping the attack on the second amendment and that's reason enough for me to be off the train, but that's a MINOR issue compared to this administrative ruling that so brazenly ignores the Separation of Powers. I can't let that slide. I am OK with bending some of the idiotic, stupid rules like the Dems do to make them suffer, but there are some lines that are not to be crossed. The clear wording of the Constitution is one of those lines.

Suppose the next Dem president decides that churches that preach that abortion is a sin are in violation of their tax exempt status, and now owe taxes? That's not what the law says, but the law also says a bump stock is not a machine gun despite Trump's DoJ saying it is. Or maybe the next Dem president will say that all semi auto firearms are machine guns because they can be bump fired without a bump stock. Perhaps the next Dem president will say that that all conservative political action groups do not have tax exempt status. Here's a good one: maybe the next Dem president will sign an order stating that all Christian schools and universities that don't hire transgender athiests are in violation of anti discrimination laws. All of those possibilities are as legally valid as Trump's bump stock ban.

This is no longer about bump stocks, people. Get it through your heads. In fact, I'll type it again, and I'll type slow so that everyone will get it.

This. Is. Not. About. Bump. Stocks.

This is about deciding what kind of country you want to live in. This is about whether you want to have a government with three separate branches and well defined powers, or if you would rather be ruled by a king.

I will not be ruled by a king, and I don't care what letter is by the name of the man who wishes to wear the crown and I don't care what his name is.

You "durrrr bump stocks are stoopid no one cares" people better hope and pray the federal courts do their jobs for once and slap this down hard and fast. If they don't, pandora's box is open and we are screwed.

I bend the knee to NO KING, except Jesus Christ.