Another Victim On “Bump Stock Hill”

Last year, Rare Breed Triggers introduced their FRT-15 trigger. It’s an innovative device that helps the user of an AR-pattern firearm to fire rapidly. Specifically, the sear forces a reset of the trigger without the operator having to release finger pressure from the trigger. Thus, you maintain pressure, the trigger resets with each shot, and … Continue reading Another Victim On “Bump Stock Hill”

Sixth Circuit Finds Bump-Fire Stocks Are Not Machine Guns

A three judge panel of the Sixth so ruled, reversing the lower court and remanding the case back to be decided consistent with the finding that they do not meet the definition of “machine gun.” Importantly, they also ruled that the lower court erred in granting the ATF Chevron deference. Because an agency’s interpretation of … Continue reading Sixth Circuit Finds Bump-Fire Stocks Are Not Machine Guns

Bump Stock Ban Update: Oh dear bog

I read a couple of the most recent responses from the government in the Aposhian and GOA challenges of the ban. I see the government still fails to explain some points. 1. The government argues that pulling the action of the firearm forward to engage the trigger with the user’s finger the first time is … Continue reading Bump Stock Ban Update: Oh dear bog

So you didn’t want to die on “bump stock hill”

For better than a year and a half, The Zelman Partisans have been trying to warn gun owners that the bump-fire stock ban was a bigger deal than just that. In late May, we warned that lawyers were taking notice and making this argument in public. Now they’re arguing in Nevada state court that all … Continue reading So you didn’t want to die on “bump stock hill”

BSTD Bump-Fire Ban Compliance Rate [POLL]

The deadline for compliance with the irrational “bump-stock-type device (BSTD)” — bump-fire — ban has passed. So how effective has the imperial fiat been at making the nation safe from inert “machineguns”? Who the hell knows? No one even knows how many there were; the ATF’s “estimate” (“SA Smedley! Quick; bend over so I can … Continue reading BSTD Bump-Fire Ban Compliance Rate [POLL]

Bump Stock Compliance

I did my bit. If you can’t read that (the rubber bands interfered with scanner focus): To whom it may concern, Please find enclosed 1 “baker’s dozen” (representing the 13 colonies which rose up in armed rebellion in response to an attempted confiscation) potential bump-stock-type devices (BSTD). While I realize that you have argued that … Continue reading Bump Stock Compliance

POLL: What to do with Bump Stocks

The deadline approaches: On Tuesday, March 26, 2019, those still holding bump stocks (with a bare few exceptions) will magically become felons as inert chunks of plastic mystically morph into post-’86 machineguns. Hypothetically speaking (because none of TZP’s regular readers could possibly mean to become malum prohibitum criminals), what will/are you doing with your “bump-stock-type … Continue reading POLL: What to do with Bump Stocks

FPC, FPF Announce Expedited Appeal in Bumpstock Ban Cases

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2019) — Today, attorneys for Firearms Policy Coalition and Firearms Policy Foundation filed opening briefs in their consolidated appeals with the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the ongoing federal litigation challenging the confiscatory “bump-stock” ban rulemaking by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Copies of … Continue reading FPC, FPF Announce Expedited Appeal in Bumpstock Ban Cases

“Compliance”: Bump-Stock-TYPE Devices

The bump stock ban rule is out. Bump-fire stocks are now machineguns. To power-crazed tyrants, anyway. But, since FOPA forbids possession of machineguns manufactured or imported later than May 1986, you’ll have to get rid of them. You want to be good, right? I suppose you could simply destroy your bump-fire stock, but if the … Continue reading “Compliance”: Bump-Stock-TYPE Devices