[Pollster1]

he made a point of using a “bump stock” which probably ultimately lowered the death toll as if to put a novelty shooting item into the headlines.

I agree on that point. Give any capable (but psychopathic) shooter an AR-10 with good optics and a huge stack of magazines overlooking a concert from his vantage point, and there would be a lot more dead in ten minutes. He wanted the "rock and roll" and the fear of full auto more than he wanted a body count. The bump stocks probably saved a lot of lives compared to what would have happened with the same crazy man but aimed fire.

[circlecity]

"I agree on that point. Give any capable (but psychopathic) shooter an AR-10 with good optics and a huge stack of magazines overlooking a concert from his vantage point, and there would be a lot more dead in ten minutes."

This is an excellent point. A point the media and those who know nothing about guns would never accept but any practiced shooter knows is absolutely true. At the range I can hit a plate sized target at 400 yards 100 times easily in 10 minutes. That's only 5 magazines for an AR-10 (Or, I could before the boating accident). If one was shooting into 20K people herded together like cattle it would be much easier.

[old-ager]

> The bump stocks probably saved a lot of lives compared to what would have happened with the same crazy man but aimed fire.

I think this is correct. Anybody commenting otherwise on these needs to be asked if he has ever fired using one. They are simply for fun, for wasting ammo, and “because you can.”

So now NRA is selling out on this issue.

Maybe they will sell out next on files / Dremels and AR hammers.