Even if you think bump stocks and similar devices are stupid, please remember that government by fiat is never a good thing. Also, bumpfiring is a technique, not a device. I can do it without a device. Letting the ATF regulate how you use a thing is dangerous. Additionally, basically any aftermarket device for a gun that changes how the action cycles could be reinterpreted as a “rate increasing device” by an unfriendly administration. This could end up being applied to low mass BCGs, adjustable gas blocks, muzzle devices, springs, triggers, buffers, and probably just about anything else you can think of. Suddenly my race gun AR could be a machine gun just because the action has been modified to make it more suitable for competition.
The opinions seem overwhelmingly against reclassifying bump stocks. I would go so far as to say effectively unanimous. I guess that’s to be expected, though.
There’s relatively few comments, compared to some other RFCs that I’ve read.
Form letters? C’mon people. Have a fucking original thought. Took me about 5 minutes to write what is in essence what these form letters say, but I used my own words. If you don’t care enough to use your own fucking words, you deserve to have your rights curtailed - just don’t take mine with you. Fuck.
Form letters are fine if there are 300k+ responses to the ATF, but when it is lower it looks pretty bad. Unfortunately the ATF pretty clearly uses the magnitude of negative responses as a measuring stick to see how much they can get away with, so the most responses to proposed ATF policy changes should be overwhelmingly negative.
Deadline is coming, and still very few comments relative to the rate of gun ownership in America. Thanks NRA. You really knocked it out of the park this time . . . Oh wait, you called for this action.
Deadline is coming, and still very few comments relative to the rate of gun ownership in America. Thanks NRA. You really knocked it out of the park this time.