I care less about bump stocks than I do about separation of powers. Even the Holder/Lynch Justice Department did not believe that it had the authority to ban bump stocks through regulation, because the definition of “machine gun” under the National Firearms Act clearly does not include bump stocks. Yet, for the purpose of political expediency, the Sessions Justice Department has simply chosen to disregard the statutory language and ban bump stocks by executive fiat by defining the word “automatically” out of existence.
Congress makes the law, not the President or the Attorney General. I don’t trust any President or Attorney General with that power, Trump and Sessions included.
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