Randygmn wrote:Ghost wrote:How do you classify bump stocks as machine guns and ban them at the same time? Machine guns are not banned.
Once classified as a machine gun, they become illegal immediately. Because of the Gun Control Act of 1986, no “machine gun” manufactured since can be legally owned by civilians. There is no mechanism to open up the registry to grandfather existing bump stocks without an act of Congress.
As far as the proposal goes, I agree to everything....except items 1,2 and 3 in the “gun control” column. Incrementally, they got NICS checks 19 years ago. Now they are attempting a universal background check without registration. Give it another 19 years and they’ll say that wasn’t effective enough, we need universal registration. Sorry, but I’d rather just fight it out now. Kinetically. Winner takes all, once and for all.
So when they decide any semi auto that fires faster than 2 rounds a minute is now a machine gun what do we do? Bumpstocks are not nor ever will be machine guns. This is one hell of a slippery slope.