Under Federal Law an 80% lower is not a firearm. An executive order won’t change that.
How many of these firearms are actually used in crimes, I wonder?
Yes, but telling fellow travelers in the ATF to do something about them can.
And a bump stock isn’t a machine gun either. But here we are. The dictatorship in DC does as it pleases.
Trump passed 2 illegal EO’s restricting the 2nd.
“Under Federal Law an 80% lower is not a firearm. An executive order won’t change that.”
Under ATF’s own rule bump stocks did not meet the definition of automatic weapon, but they just poof, made them illegal. The precedent has been set.
Neither was a bump-stock, but that was banned via stroke of the pen.
“Under Federal Law an 80% lower is not a firearm. An executive order won’t change that.”
LOL, good one. It’s like saying the Constitution confers some kind of ‘right’ to own firearms.
Under federal law only the below are "Firearms"
title 26 USC 5845 firearm 26 U.S. Code § 5845 (a) Firearm
(1) a shotgun having a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length;
(2) a weapon made from a shotgun if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 18 inches in length;
(3) a rifle having a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length;
(4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length;
(5) any other weapon, as defined in subsection (e);
(6) a machinegun;
(7) any silencer (as defined in section 921 of title 18, United States Code); and
(8) a destructive device. The term “firearm” shall not include an antique firearm or any device (other than a machinegun or destructive device) which, although designed as a weapon, the Secretary finds by reason of the date of its manufacture, value, design, and other characteristics is primarily a collector’s item and is not likely to be used as a weapon.
(e) Any other weapon The term “any other weapon” means any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.