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Trump Announces He Signed Memo To Ban Bump Stocks
Ali Vitali ^ | February 20, 2018 | Ali Vitali

Posted on 02/20/2018 1:08:04 PM PST by Pinkbell

New: Trump just said he signed a memo directing the Attorney General to propose a rule outlawing bump stocks, all devices "that turn legal weapons into machine guns." He expects those regulations to be finalized "very soon."

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1term; 2ndamendment; banglist; bigmistake; bumpstocks; guns; jamesp81; maga; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; nra; screwingup; secondamendment; triplechess; trump; trumpbanglist
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To: SgtHooper

I’d say there is a much stronger argument that a firearm with a binary trigger is a “machinegun” under the NFA than a firearm with a bump stock.


221 posted on 02/20/2018 4:33:12 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: Hugh the Scot
My right to arms for defense of self and family does not come from government, but from God.

I guess it really doesn't matter to you then what laws are passed or not passed.

Another difference is that I will not fire on God if He comes to disarm me.

Get real. You're not going to open fire on your local sheriff if he's got a warrant to arrest you.

222 posted on 02/20/2018 4:33:28 PM PST by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Freedom_2_ADM

I know. I keep trying to explain that but no one seems to actually hear anything. They just keep going back to bump stock buzzword nonsense.


223 posted on 02/20/2018 4:33:46 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Hugh the Scot
My right to arms for defense of self and family does not come from government, but from God.

I guess it really doesn't matter to you then what laws are passed or not passed.

Another difference is that I will not fire on God if He comes to disarm me.

Get real. You're not going to open fire on your local sheriff if he's got a warrant to arrest you.

224 posted on 02/20/2018 4:33:53 PM PST by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: fortheDeclaration

That is exactly wrong. You have seen it explained to you many times by more knowledgeable people here on this thread. The language already exists to ban ITEMS that make the weapon perform better. It is a Democrat backdoor effort to ban actual useful items.


225 posted on 02/20/2018 4:36:35 PM PST by The Toll
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To: Wissa

Don’t ever presume to tell me what I will or won’t do.
As to the remainder of the nonsense you posted, you’ve apparently never read a posting of mine. I believe this was a critically stupid move, but it doesn’t violate the 2nd amendment, and therefore probably doesn’t have anything to do with RKBA.


226 posted on 02/20/2018 4:40:09 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: dfwgator
What does Trump gain by this?

I don't know; I suspect he prefers to not telegraph his intentions. So far, I am satisfied that if he wasn't going to gain something better, he wouldn't be doing it.

If you think that I have bought some sort of Trumpular "better deal" kool-aid, so be it, but hey-diddle-diddle, straight up the middle plays aren't wise when the weak sisters of the GOP, the deep state, the media and the Commucrats are all on the field against you at the same time.

227 posted on 02/20/2018 4:48:14 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: Pinkbell
Trump wrote a memo directing Sessions to propose a rule.

In my opinion, if all it took was a limited rule and such a limited rule was possible then there would already be a rule. There is a reason that Congress & the NRA backed away from this issue and that reason remains....

228 posted on 02/20/2018 4:52:30 PM PST by DBeers (The concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.)
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To: DBeers

In doing so, he concedes that inanimate objects murder people.


229 posted on 02/20/2018 4:56:51 PM PST by The Toll
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To: The Toll
In doing so, he concedes that inanimate objects murder people.

Precisely. Trump is trying to do Bush-style Triangulation here, and it never works.

230 posted on 02/20/2018 4:57:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

All he is trying to do is keep those oppose to him quiet.


231 posted on 02/20/2018 5:03:36 PM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5W)
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To: Pinkbell

Idiotic and ridiculous.


232 posted on 02/20/2018 5:08:06 PM PST by firebrand
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To: rockrr

Nobody cares


233 posted on 02/20/2018 5:16:33 PM PST by silentknight
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To: Pinkbell

Bad move, Mr President.

The left will take this small concession and demand more? you’re only whetting their appetite.


234 posted on 02/20/2018 5:16:34 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: The Toll
In doing so, he concedes that inanimate objects murder people.

In a broad sense I agree with you; however, in a limited sense the issue as premised come under the 'automatic' ban which is already effectively a conceded/mute issue...

235 posted on 02/20/2018 5:16:41 PM PST by DBeers (The concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They will find something else to have faux outrage.


236 posted on 02/20/2018 5:23:48 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: silentknight

Obviously. That’s why there are 236 responses on this thread.


237 posted on 02/20/2018 5:32:48 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Hugh the Scot
Don’t ever presume to tell me what I will or won’t do.

Okay. I won't TELL you, but I'll make the suggestion to you that if you really are the type willing to open fire on a law enforcement officer following lawful orders, you may not want to proclaim that on a public forum beforehand. Not in these days where "See something, say something" is starting to get people's interest again.

238 posted on 02/20/2018 5:34:28 PM PST by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: dfwgator

I never heard of these things. How often are they used and for what purpose? Have you heard of them before? I have done quite a bit of shooting over the years and never heard of anyone using one. Some think this will lead to a disaster if they take these away? Can that be even remotely possible?


239 posted on 02/20/2018 5:35:11 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Biggirl
All he is trying to do is keep those oppose to him quiet.

All he did is to empower them even more.

240 posted on 02/20/2018 5:35:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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