06 October 2017

Using Existing Law

Since a bump fire stock is clearly not a machine gun by the very nature of how it works; but it does emulate fully automatic fire.

We already have a category for something that's neither fish nor fowl in the NFA.

Any Other Weapon (AOW).

Same background check as the other NFA categories.  Same tedious wait.  Not closed off by the Firearms Owner's Protection Act (FOPA).

Only a $5 transfer tax too!

So we have BATFE declare bump fire stocks AOW, then have an NFA amnesty for the existing stocks.

Ulterior motive: The amnesty written into the law is for any NFA item, so dust off those drop-in auto-sear plans dig up that stash of drop in auto sears your dad buried in the back yard!

All of this can be done with existing law.  Without trading away anything.

Without risking, once again, that the anti-gun side's stuff gets passed as black letter law while our stuff is promised for later.
Posted by Angus McThag at 11:29
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2 comments:

  1. SiGraybeard07 October, 2017 11:02

    There's an idea floating around - so I assume it's a Democratic talking point - that "we must have congressional action on bump stocks". Why? The only reason they're legal is a BATFE ruling, and they can change their mind whenever they feel like it. They change their minds on things all the time, as far as I can tell. They also once declared a shoelace, that (IIRC) did the same basic thing as a bump stock, was a machine gun. I suspect the only reason to push for "congressional action" is grease that slippery slope and outlaw more things.

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    1. Angus McThag07 October, 2017 13:16

      I'm sure that I'm not the only one who noticed that Dianne Feinstein had a draft bill already ready to submit.

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