THIS. IS. NOT. ABOUT F******G. BUMP. STOCKS.
Federal law clearly says a bump stock is not a machine gun. It is very cut and dried. The president determined they should be classified as MGs anyway, so ATF tortured the English language sufficiently to do it.
The president created law out of thin air without congressional action. Period.
The ban broadly outlaws devices that help increase rate of fire. Other things that increase rate of fire: aftermarket triggers, standard capacity magazines, lightweight bolt carriers, recoil compensators.
I don’t give a hoot in Hell if you think bump stocks are safe or not. We have a God given right to them, and we also have a strong interest in preventing the executive branch from accruing more power. We have a word for a man who creates law unilaterally without the consent of the people as expressed through their representatives. This man is called a king.
The President is merely the President of the United States. He is not king of the United States.
People who think this is about stocks and that it’s ok to ban them because they’re silly need to get their heads out of their asses.
So, the president completely quiets the other side with this EO, fully knowing that, eventually, it will get overturned by the SCOTUS if anyone bothers to fight it. And it is about something nobody on either side really supports, except the hard core principle of “anything that so much as touches a gun should not be banned” purists.
I understand the concept of slippery slope, but sometimes it’s necessary to spend a little time on the edge of that slope. Life is risk.
The globalist tyrants really want to disarm the "Americans Behind Every Blade of Grass" factor and they will do it incrementally if they have to.