As most of us know there is great controversy over an out right ban on a device called a bump fire stock. Part of the Public want it and even some gun owners. President Trump wants the DOJ to interpret the Machine Gun ban of 1934 to include the so called bump fire stock. Since this stock allows a semi automatic weapon to fire as a “fast semi auto weapon,” I personally fail to see how the DOJ can legally ban the bump stock as a machine gun under the current law as it was written. The bump stock does not fall under the category of “single function of the trigger” as it was written in 1934. If it did, I would think that Congress would have made it mandatory to attached speedometers to all semi automatic weapons.
Example, part of the law states:
(b) Machinegun
The term “
machinegun” means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
This is not about bump stocks. It’s about twisting a law. If bump stocks are banned under this law then there is nothing to stop the Government from banning any semi auto weapon that they deem fit under this same law?
Pandora’s Box:
As we know - All semi auto weapons can be made to fire full auto.
NOW, by looking at this law, who gets to determine the definition of ”readily restored”?
The ATF?
The DOJ?
The President?
Who will determine the length of time of the ”readily restored” clause? 5 minutes? 30 minutes? 1 hour? A Day?
Again The DOJ? The President? The ATF?
There are millions of other laws in America that have nothing to do with guns that, given this same scenario, would also fall victim to this insanity.
Bump fire stocks are a State or Congressional issue and that’s that! We don’t have a King yet, but it looks like America is well on its way!