I take all of my firearms very, very seriously. We have a large collection. I reload cartridges for every caliber that we own.
I have seen irresponsible idiots on several occasions using these toys to fantasize that they are shooting a machine gun. They are not only irritating; they put other people at risk because these yahoos typically do not have good control over where their projectiles are striking. Every time I have seen people using them at unregulated spots the morons were boozing it up at the same time. They give responsible gun owners a bad name. So Democrats absolutely love them.
When they were banned at our gun club there wasn’t any debate about it. These things are only of interest to reckless thrill seekers. So I am not going to lose any more sleep over them being banned than I would if someone invented some type of self driving car that kept running over pedestrians till it was banned.
I am shocked that we have so many proponents. I thought that the people here were mostly serious firearms users not armchair idiots, bloviating about complete nonsense.
You are missing the point. Are you comfortable with the fact that a regulatory agency has arbitrarily made a change in federal law, i.e. the definition of a machine gun? Machine guns are prcisely defined by law, and changes to that law MUST be made by congress. Another equally egregious issue here is the fact that owners of bump fire stocks are faced with the choice of either destroying or turning in their stocks to the feral government or become a felon. Notice that they will receive no compensation for having their personal property confiscated.
You may not be losing sleep over these issues because you don’t like these stocks, but you sure as hell should be losing sleep over the fact that what we have here is a wholesale violation of the Constitution, and it is depressingly likely that the feral government will get away with it, as the courts have so far simply ignored the issues raised in the lawsuits.
As a side note I do not and have never owned a bumpfire stock, even though I own enough AR15s that I could not give you an exact count without consulting my inventory sheets or searching my safe(s). I have no personal animus against them, I simply have no place where they could be conveniently used, and other than using one on a .22 AR or possibly a 9mm, ammo is too expensive to waste.