Justice Dept. charges Texas man under US bump stock ban

Houston Chronicle ^ | 09/06/2019 | Michael Balsamo

[GIdget2004]

A Texas man is the first person to be charged under a federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow a semi-automatic firearm to fire rapidly like a machine gun, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Ajay Dhingra, 43, of Houston, came on the radar of the U.S. Secret Service in August after he sent an email to the George W. Bush Foundation asking the former president to "send one of your boys to come and murder me," according to court records.

Prosecutors allege that Dhingra had previously been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility and was prohibited from owning firearms. When Secret Service agents showed up at his house, Dhingra told them he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, court documents said.

At his home, investigators found a handgun and an AR-15 rifle that had a bump stock attached to it, the documents said. Investigators also found four 100-round magazines.

Dhingra's case is the first brought by the U.S. Justice Department for violating the nationwide bump stock ban since it took effect in March, under the same federal law that prohibits possessing machine guns. The devices became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used by the gunman who killed 58 people and left hundreds of others injured in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

[shanover]

Meanwhile Hillary, Comey, etal. remain free as a bird.

Nailed it. It's disgusting even under a Republican Administration.

[Lion Den Dan]

The guy is already declared to be nuts. Don’t think any charge will stick.

[Boogieman]

Sure, the old Dhingras of Dhingra County, I remember them.

[familyop]

"I feel safer already. /s

What a moronic thing to do."

Hey! Mr. Dhingra didn't do anything suspicious! They singled him out to make all partying libertarians look bad!

That's alright, though. No less than Gun Owners of America will take the case, because it's a really good case. Ron Paul will be beaming with approval (or from "partaking" of "**the natural herb**") and certain of victory!!! Look! Nibiru! Oh, no, those men with short hair and "normie" clothes! They're really lizard people from Nibiru, coming to control our brains!

;D. . . <----- Familyop, drooling with wisdom. Or is it laughter?

[DoughtyOne]

Would love to see some of these cases get struck down at the SCOTUS.

Magazine limitations were struck down by the 9th Circuit Court.

Yikes.

I like the idea of backtracking some of the Leftist idiocy concerning gun control.

[trebb]

He picked himself...shows that we need to take a serious look at mental health laws...many out there that have no business touching a weapon and, as they say, too dangerous to have a weapon, too dangerous to be walking free and unsupervised...