Bump stocks are dumb toys, which one guy figured out a unique situation where it’s flaws didn’t much matter, and had a dozen spare rifles on hand. The more direct problem with the laws is that they aren’t defining bump stocks in a way that doesn’t include a lot of mundane items.
The basic problem is that attackers can choose whatever they want to bring, legal or not, so outlawing this or that is just a trivially useful march through outlawing other people’s useful-for-good-purposes stuff. When you outlaw these things - especially poorly defined, simple, or widely available things - at best you’re costing millions to inconvience only the most stupid and unimaginative. At worst you’re depriving people of tools to protect themselves, and making Orwellian criminals.
And what is missing from this whole debate is that bump stocks had NOTHING to do with Parkland. This assh*le kid was on local, County, and FBI radar for a long time, and SHOULD have been on the NICS no-buy list.
Neither a Bump Stock, nor the AR15 caused this havoc; an assh*le psychopath kid with a chip on his shoulder that was KNOWN to multiple levels of law enforcement agencies as a threat caused this. Period.
Police visited his house 45+ times on violence calls. He was expelled from school for threatening people. He should have set off alarm bells the MINUTE he tried to purchase one in the FFL's store.
But a whole bunch of alphabet agencies did not do their jobs. THAT is what is glaringly absent from the entire discussion. And those incompetent pukes STILL have their jobs.
Let's repeat that - a whole bunch of alphabet agencies did not do their jobs. And the Sheriff deputies sat outside wetting themselves while unarmed kids were being slaughtered, but again, only police should have guns.
But yeah, Governor Scott and all the RINOs... let's ban bump stocks, because, like, hey, THAT'LL stop the NEXT psychopath when the same incompetent people at the same alphabet agencies f*** up again.
Congrats to the governor. He passed MORE gun control than the muslim Kenyan did in eight years.
So they can all pat themselves on the back, and harrumph that they "did something", and in reality all they did was further infringe on the rights of innocent folks who ELECTED them to protect those same rights from the Democrats.
Stellar job, all around from our Public Servants.../s