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What An Idiot

June 22, 2023 Carl Bussjaeger 2 Comments

Connecticut Dimwit Senator Chris Murphy. Of course.

America a crying out for Congress to do something about mass shootings. So what is Senate Republicans’ answer? To force a vote today on a resolution that would legalize a class of assault weapons that have been banned for 100 years.

I’m heading to the Senate floor to oppose it.

Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins was a bit confused by Murphy’s tweet.

It is difficult to decipher Murphy’s tweet, as the Republican effort to block the ATF is about protecting guns with stabilizer braces that were legal to own without registration up until June 1, 2023.

What really confused him is that Murphy is simply dumber than a box of rocks.

Republicans were attempting to legislatively block the ATF’s pistol brace rule. That nonlegislative law-making declared braced pistols to be short-barrel rifles. Murphy, being stupid and ignorant — and apparently surrounded by equally incompetent staffers who couldn’t set him straight — seems to think short-barrel rifles are banned. They are not. Not even in Connecticut.

SBRs are regulated under the National Firearms Act; requiring the payment of a tax to lawfully possess. Murphy, had he two neurons to rub together, might have noticed that the ATF’s new, unconstitutional rule allowed a grace period for braced pistol owners to register their magically-turned-into-rifles pistols. I assume this regulation is what the idiot mistook for a ban.

Digression: I wouldn’t blame anyone who decided to use the ATF’s “amnesty” to register. It’s not a bad deal, given the regulatory environment we’re stuck with for now. But not for the reason the ATF thinks.

The ATF waived the registration tax. So you could register your braced pistol for free. And now that it’s a short-barrel rifle…

…you equip it with a real stock, and the barrel length of your choice. And now you have a real SBR ready to go, no charge. Transferable.

End digression

Possibly Hawkins was also confused by Murphy’s claim that this “ban” happened 100 years ago. Here’s a hint for the Connecticut cluck: the regualtion is through the National Firearms Act of 1934. That would be 89 years ago (minus a few days, as I type this); not 100.

Hawkins’ column mentions that these pistols were perfectly legal prior to the ATF arrogating Congress’ authority. And that raises an interesting point about the NFA and SBRs.

SBRs were regulated because Congress of the time considered them dangerously concealable. But pistols are even more concealable, yet not NFA regulated. The difference was how powerful a cut-down rifle is compared to a typical handgun. So there were really two factors that determined an SBR: barrel length and power.

But what was a pistol last month, and is now a rifle, still fires the same round. The brace doesn’t make it more powerful. It’s the same blasted gun.

I’d argue that this is one more indicator that the brace rule violates Congress’ intent. That might be an extra point to be raised in lawsuits challenging the rule.

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Legislative News From The Swamp

April 13, 2021 Carl Bussjaeger 2 Comments

Rep. Jamie Raskin [Dumbass-MD8] has filed two new firearm bills.

H.R.2427 – To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the transfer tax on certain firearms, and for other purposes does two things. First, it would immediately raise the NFA stamp tax price to $300, from the current $200. Thereafter, it increases annually by the cost-of-living adjustment. That’s bad enough, but the second thing it does is worse.

It channels the tax stamp revenue to the DOJ and ATF so they can fund “gun violence prevention initiatives.” That sounds like grants to Demanding Mommies and whatevername Brady is using this month (honestly, I can’t keep up).

I’d give this one a fifty-fifty chance of passage. Law ‘n order Republicans might just roll over on tax stamps.

Compared to that, H.R.2426 – To prohibit the transfer of a firearm to a person whose State license to purchase, own, or possess a firearm has been revoked, or a person who has been ordered by a State court to surrender all firearms is almost funny. The title says it all. Clearly Raskin, in his idiocy, has mistaken Maryland for the rest of the country.

There are twelve states, and the District of Calamity, that require any sort of license to purchase or possess a firearm. And, generally speaking, the things that get a license revoked are usually things that make one a prohibited person anyway. Ditto with court orders to not possess guns. HR 2426 is basically a redundant waste of taxpayer-funded time and money.

This bill I give a 70% chance of passage. Again, the law ‘n order Republicans will tend to like preventing criminals getting guns, and some will support as a dickering tool, since they’ll largely see it as redundant.

Then again, I suppose I might have underestimated Raskin’s intelligence. He could have filed it as an expendable bill that the Dims can sacrifice in a pretend-compromise.

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The Third Chamber of Congress

December 20, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger

The US Constitution, as amended by the ATF:

Article 1 – The Legislative Branch
Section 1 – The Legislature
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Article 1 – The Legislative Branch
Section 7 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Bills originating in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives become law immediately, the House and Senate not having a say, and such bills not being subject to veto by the President.

(Italicized text added by ATF fiat.)

I always wondered how the ATF was going to deal with Franklin Armory’s Reformation. That’s the firearm which bypassed existing law by creative design. It appears to be a short-barreled rifle, but — while it has lands — it isn’t rifled; the lands are straight.

But it isn’t a shotgun because it isn’t a smoothbore. Nor is it an Any Other Weapon because it isn’t really concealable, nor does it fit any of the other AOW definitions. Franklin Armory came up with something not envisioned by the crafters of the NFA or Gun Control Act of ’68.

A normal person, yet who for some odd reason does think government should regulate firearms, might think, “Well heck; that’s like a law specifically addressing animal- or wind-powered transport, and along comes the motor car. We need Congress to pass a new law for new gadget.”

Normal people don’t work at the ATF.

Frankly, I expected the ATF to declare it to be concealable and thus an NFA Any Other Weapon, just as they declared bump-fire stocks to be machineguns, bypassing unconstitutionally bypassing Congress. But they’re on a roll now, so…

Without any enabling legislation whatsoever, the ATF has invented out whole cloth a brand new, non-NFA class of firearms.

The GCA/SBS: Gun Control Act Short-Barreled Shotgun.

The ATP Firearms and Ammunition Technology Division (FATD) has examined the Reformation firearm for purposes of classification under the applicable provisions of the Gun Control Act (GCA) and the National Firearms Act (NFA). During this examination, FATD determined that the straight lands and grooves incorporated into the barrel design of the Reformation do not impart a spin onto a projectile when fired through the barrel. Consequently, the Reformation is not a “rifle” as that term is defined in the GCA and NFA. 1 Moreover, because the Reformation is not chambered for shotgun shells, it is not a shotgun as defined in the NFA.2 Given these determinations, the Reformation is classified as a shotgun that is subject only to the provisions of the GCA (i.e., it is not a weapon subject to the provisions of the NFA).3

Under the provisions of the GCA, if a Reformation firearm is equipped with a barrel that is less than 18-inches in overall length, that firearm is classified to be a short-barreled shotgun (SBS).4 When a Reformation is configured as a GCNSBS, specific provisions of the GCA apply to the transfer of that firearm from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FPL) to a non-licensee, and to the transport of that firearm by a non-licensee in interstate or foreign commerce.

A whole new class, with whole new rules. They don’t even have forms to address this unlawful, unconstitutional Frankensteinian firearm fiat. Therefore, all sales have been ordered stopped.

Under the GCA, a non-NFA firearm would be subject to just the already burdensome rules: bound book, prohibited persons, background checks, et cetera. No NFA tax stamp.

The GCA/SBS will require special permission — somehow differing from the NFA tax stamp — from the US Attorney General (tell me again how Trump was going to save the Second with his appointees?) not just to purchase, but even to transport your own firearm across state lines.

Hey, why not? The EPA seized power to regulate carbon dioxide. At least they did it by classify exhalations — plant food — as a pollutant, an existing class in existing law.

The ATF is the third chamber of Congress. There is no Constitution.

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[UPDATED] DigiTrigger

October 30, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 2 Comments

This appears to be a machinegun under current ATF BSTD/AutoGlove/etc rulings. Now, the demo in the video is marked “Military & Police,” so I’m going to assume that it won’t be available to us peons, despite SCOTUS’ Miller ruling. But…

This civilian unit seems to have the same problem. Unlike a normal mechanical binary trigger, which fires one round when the finger pulls the trigger and a second round when the finger allows the trigger to reset, ~~DigiTrigger appears to use the electronics to operate the firing mechanism twice for a single finger operation of the trigger~~. (see below) That is exactly why the ATF shut down the AutoGlove. The alleged single — “volitional” — operation of the trigger is the basic of the BSTD rule.

Update: I contacted the company. The pull/release (P/R) mode is not burst, but fully simulates P/R: fire on pull, then fire when the finger lets the trigger reset. The DT1.6 digital machinegun I first mentioned is, as I expected, definitely NFA and is under development for the LE/Mil market. No surprise there.

I get it. People want to push the envelope of what they think is legal. But unless they’ve amassed a large pile of legal fund cash, and a herd of good attorneys, with the intent of a serious court challenge to BS ATF determinations and court decisions, all Digital Trigger Technologies is doing is asking for trouble.

If they know what they’re getting into and are willing to go to the mat on this, more power and the best of luck to them

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Gun Controllers Still Making S–t Up

September 23, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger

Today’s entry is Nicholas H. Wolfinger.

Reaching a compromise on assault weapons
[…]
Many mass shootings involve military-style assault rifles capable of rapid-fire mass murder: equipped with a hundred-round magazine, the Dayton shooter killed nine people and injured at least 27 more in 30 seconds.

An assault rifle is a shoulder-fired, select-fire firearm chambered for an intermediate-power cartridge. The Dayton chumbucket used a semiautomatic pistol.

Building on the National Firearm Act of 1934, the 1986 Act banned new machine gun sales but grandfathered in existing weapons. According to a 2015 ATF report, over 500,000 of these rifles remain in private hands.

Dipstick cites a four year old report that actually lists 543,073 machineguns total (not just rifles). The actual number is, per the ATF, 175,977 in private hands. To approximate Wolfinger’s number you have to add in restricted items and sales samples, neither of which is available to private individuals. And that only yields 490,664, because he failed to notice the exports in his source.

The 1986 Act codified a robust regulatory regime governing the transfer of machine guns between private parties.

No, the NFA 0f 1934 did that. FOPA ’86 banned transfer of machineguns not already registered.

Buying one requires a background check (including a testimonial from a local law enforcement officer), a fee, a permit, and a wait of up to a year for government processing. All such purchases are entered into a federal registry.

Close, but no cigar. Local law enforcement is notified, but — under federal rules; states may vary — the CLEO does not have to sign off on it.

No federally-licensed gun has ever been used in a violent crime, let alone a mass shooting.

Wrong again, bubba. September 15, 1988: Patrolman Roger Waller of Dayton, Ohio used his registered MAC-11 chambered in .380 to kill police informant and local drug dealer Lawrence Hileman.

And, while it was properly classed as an accident, there was the 2014 death of Charles Vacca at the Arizona Last Stop range by a young girl with a registered Uzi.

Why not extend this regulatory regime to all assault rifles?

All assault rifles are already covered by the NFA, and always have been (since the NFA predates the first assault rifles).

The El Paso shooter, for instance, purchased his assault rifle in the weeks before his rampage.

He didn’t have an assault rifle. He had a semi-automatic WASR-10.

Pistols, not rifles, are responsible for the vast majority of homicides and suicides in America

Pistols are nonsentient inanimate objects. They are not responsible for homicides or suicides; the people pulling the triggers are responsible.

Indeed pistols, many of which are capable of semi-automatic fire, have been used in some of our worst mass shootings, including the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting

Interesting that he doesn’t mention the Sig Sauer MCX, since he’s riding an “assault weapon” hobby horse.

Parenthetically, in modern US usage “pistol” refers to a handgun with the chamber integral with the barrel, and most often semiautomatic handguns. Wolfinger may find this firearms primer useful should he wish to, you know, actually know whath e’s talking about.

I wonder if Wolfinger is even aware that legislation to do what he wants — make all those nasty guns into NFA items — was actually filed back in February. I noted that while it requires everything to be registered within 120 days, in reality it would require a minimum of 54 years to get the tax stamp.

This professor’s classes must be a real joy for his students, stuck trying to sort truth from made up stuff in his lectures.

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“I do not think that means what you think it means.”

August 22, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 5 Comments

Parkland “survivor” Hogglet needs his 15-minute-fame fix again.

David Hogg suggests compromise on gun control
“If this plan ends up in Congress, and they say a gun registry is a nonstarter or the assault weapons ban and mandatory gun buy back program are nonstarters, OK. Then maybe we start talking about reclassifying them and making sure you have the right permitting in place where you can still go and use them,” Hogg continued. “But people aren’t going to have nearly as easy accessibility to them to go and commit mass shootings as they are currently.”

Reclassifying semiautomatic firearms as NFA machineguns is registry, dumbass.

And that’s no compromise.

compromise [ kom-pruh-mahyz ]
noun
a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

Hogglet’s “compromise” offers nothing to human rights-respecting gun owners in exchange for giving up or registering tens to hundreds of millions of firearms. Allowing people to beg permission, pay a $200 bribe, and register to keep their property is not compromise.

Offer to give us something.

And listen when we say, “No.”

“Or else“.

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Looks like a declaration of war: H.R. 1263

March 2, 2019 Carl Bussjaeger 9 Comments

“A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act any semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine.”

H.R. 1263 was filed a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been checking congress.gov daily for the text, since the devil is always hiding in the little details. And, frankly, just making nearly every semiautomatic rifle an NFA item already sounds pretty bad.

Any semiauto that takes a detachable magazine — which is anything but .22 rimfire fixed tube magazines — would become an NFA item. That isn’t even the truly bad part.

Here you go:

(b) Applicability.—Any person who, on the date of the enactment of this Act, lawfully owns or possesses a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun (as defined in section 5845(a) of such Code, as amended by this Act) that has the capacity to accept a detachable ammunition feeding device (as defined in such section) shall, not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, register the semiautomatic rifle or shotgun in accordance with section 5841 of such Code. Such registration shall become a part of the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record required to be maintained by such section. The prohibition on possession of an unregistered firearm under section 5861 of such Code shall not apply to possession of such a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the capacity to accept such a detachable ammunition feeding device on any date that is 120 days or less after the enactment of this Act.

“Register.” Not apply to register. You need a tax stamp within 120 days of enactment. No stamp after the magical date and you’re a felon.

Good luck with that.

It’s currently taking a minimum of 227 days to receive the stamp. That is, it’s taking three months longer than this bill would allow. With existing NFA firearms.

Now throw in Ghu only knows how many millions of newly declared NFA rifles, and the waiting period for approval is going to shoot up into the decades at best.

There are 175,977 transferable machineguns registered now, and it takes better than 7 months to get a stamp. Throw in an estimated 16 million semiauto AR- and AK-pattern rifles into the mix and you’ll have 92 times as many for 92 times the wait, 644 months (I rounded). It’ll take almost 54 years to get your stamp.

Well, longer. I only added ARs and AKs; hardly the only semiauto rifles out there.

Rep. Douche did not set that 120 day limit by mistake. He deliberately crafted a law designed to be absolutely impossible to comply with, even if you were so inclined.

This bill will make it through the Democrat socialist-controlled House. It probably won’t make it through the coward-controlled Senate, but given my own Senator’s lust for shredding the Second Amendment, I’m not sure enough of that to bet.

If it does, it is an outright declaration of war.

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Prescience?

August 17, 2018 Carl Bussjaeger 2 Comments

While looking up some old writings, on a mostly unrelated subject, I happened across this old column:

Lacking new legislation to authorize this, the FAA simply, and arbitrarily, redefined toys to be aircraft requiring registration. [ding ding]
[…]
President Barrycade has stated his intent to issue executive orders to implement gun control, since he lacks legislation to do so.
[…]
Since Obama and other blood-dancers have stated publicly that they wish to crack down on private sales, it seems safe to assume this will be in one EO or another. But what if he emulates the FAA a little more closely?

Imagine “redefining” all firearms as NFA items. Just like toys became airplanes. Or how atmospheric plant food became a pollutant.

That was December 21,2015; one of my first columns for The Zelman Partisans. Fast forward to…

October 5, 2017

Basically this Constitution-shredding Senator wants to redefine “machine gun” by how fast you can make something fire, rather than being designed to fire automatically as long as the trigger is depressed.
February 26, 2018

“Machinegun” is defined in statutory law. Short form: a firearm that fires more than one round per trigger operation. If that can be changed by executive order, instead of congressional legislation, then everything is a machinegun waiting for the pen-stroke.
March 10, 2018

Department of Justice Submits Notice of Proposed Regulation Banning Bump Stocks
April 2, 2018

In short, this NPRM, and the intent of the gun controllers, is a camouflaged ban on semiautomatic firearms. Doubt it? Read the NPRM language, and ask yourself how “President Hillary Clinton” would read and apply the rule.
April 27, 2018

Gun Owners of America finally notices the semiauto problem with bump-fire bans, and the crowd — finally — goes wild.*
Las Vegas Bump Stock FOIA Claims ATF Not Allowed to Examine Weapons
“ATF did not disclose that they had not examined the firearms prior to promulgating the rule,” firearms designer and Historic Arms, LLC President Len Savage notes. “And now that the comment period is closed should they go forward with this rule under the Administrative Procedure Act that information can not be used in a court challenge because it was not submitted prior to closing of comments.

They are doing exactly what I warned of almost three years ago. My only error was in expecting it from Obama rather than dubiously “pro-2A” Trump.

You’re welcome.

* I’d like to think that had something to do with the multiple emails — and my columns — on the semi-auto problem, which I sent to GOA before they finally spoke up.

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Slippery Slopes

June 26, 2018 Carl Bussjaeger

The Trace: The NRA Has Been Making the Same Slippery Slope Argument Since 1934
Confronted with federal regulation that sought to restrict access to certain types of military-style firearms, as well as taxes on handguns, the NRA rallied its members in opposition. Its stance was less categorical than it is today, as the organization declared itself “absolutely favorable to reasonable legislation” that confined itself to submachine guns and sawed-off shotguns, exclusively. At the same time, the group was developing the argument that gun restrictions on any kind of firearm were the first step on a slippery slope to a federal registry and excessive gun taxes.

Since then, the slippery slope apparently hasn’t included mail order bans, age limits, a new class of prohibited persons, ex post facto misdemeanor prohibitions, prior restraint background checks, “gun-free” zones, an “assault weapon ban,” arbitrary new definitions of machine gun, state-level bump-fire bans, and an upcoming federal ban on bump-fire stocks that would make any semi-auto a machine gun.

The NFA is also notable as the first major federal victim disarmament legislation for which the NRA rolled over and bared its belly.

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Welcome to the party, pal

April 27, 2018 Carl Bussjaeger 1 Comment

Gun Owners of America finally notices the semiauto problem with bump-fire bans, and the crowd — finally — goes wild.

Let me tell you about a little-known pro-RKBA group. While GOA ignored this until a couple of weeks ago (when I started getting fundraising emails mentioning bump-fire stocks), and the National Restrictions Rifle Association actively pushed for it, The Zelman Partisans has been trying to warn you.

For months.

The Zelman Partisans Statement on Proposed Legislation to Ban “Bump-Fire Stocks” and other accessories. (October 5, 2017)
Basically this Constitution-shredding Senator wants to redefine “machine gun” by how fast you can make something fire, rather than being designed to fire automatically as long as the trigger is depressed. Apparently Jerry Miculek is going to be outlawed.
Training Wheels (October 25, 2017)
That is incorrect. An automatic weapon — a machinegun — is designed to fire multiple rounds per trigger operation. Bump-fire stocks in no way affect that operation/rounds relationship. If you put a bump-fire stock on a semiautomatic rifle, you still individually operate the trigger for each round fired. Bump-fire stocks don’t make the weapon fire faster. The theoretical rate of fire of the rifle is determined by the physics of the internal parts.
The fix is in: proposed rulemaking on bump-fire
Instead of looking at mechanical function, and simple physics, in this document the ATF has adopted the media and gun controller definition of “if it’s fast, it must be a machinegun.” The intent is preordained regardless of comments.
Commenting Now Open: Application of the Definition of Machinegun to “Bump Fire” Stocks and Other Similar Devices. (December 29, 2017)
Considering bump-fire stocks, and other accessories, to be machineguns would not simply regulate a physical device. It effectively outlaws the bump-fire TECHNIQUE, and even pulling the trigger faster than some arbitrary threshold.
That’ll be our first one-term president in a while (February 20, 2018)
I wish I could be surprised, but even before Trump began to look like a serious candidate– well before he got the R nomination — I warned that his new-found verbal respect for RKBA was belied by a long anti-RKBA history.
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool.”* (February 26, 2018)
“Machinegun” is defined in statutory law. Short form: a firearm that fires more than one round per trigger operation.If that can be changed by executive order, instead of congressional legislation, then everything is a machinegun waiting for the pen-stroke.What can he — would he — do with that pen?
Screw Physical Reality (March 10, 2018)
If words having meaning, this is impossible without making every semiautomatic firearm an NFA item. Please note that this redefines machinegun without offering any grace period or grandfathering for existing gear.
Bump-fire Banned (March 23, 2018)
And yes; The Zelman Partisans opposes this. Accepting this is in no way a compromise. We did not get reciprocal carry. We did get a dangerous Fix NICS. And this isn’t a merely bump-fire ban; it’s effectively a ban on semiautomatic firearms (and if you think Feinstein, Schumer et al aren’t aware of that, you weren’t paying attention): parts is parts.
Bumping Off the Truth (March 25, 2018)
As noted on Friday, President Trump and AG Sessions announced a coming ban of bump-fire stocks (“bump-stock-type devices,” as the rule notice so eloquently puts it); no grandfathering, get rid of it or go to prison for possession of an unregistered NFA item.
Theoretically Speaking (March 28, 2018)
In every case, bump-fire stocks (and trigger cranks and “Multi-burst Trigger Activators”) are bad merely because they assist the shooter in approaching the firearm’s inherent theoretical maximum rate of fire. The semiautomatic rate of fire is the problem.Take away the bump-fire stock, crank, or multi-burp shoulder thingy, and the evil — to the gun ban bunnies — rate of fire remains.
Does anyone reading this honestly doubt that establishing the precedent of the theoretical rate of fire being the problem is exactly what they want?
“Bump-Stock-Type Devices” (sic) Commenting Now Open (March 29, 2018)
The NPRM falsely states: “Specifically, these devices convert an otherwise semiautomatic firearm into a machinegun by functioning as a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that harnesses the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm in a manner that allows the trigger to reset and continue firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter. Hence, a semiautomatic firearm to which a bump-stock-type device is attached is able to produce automatic fire with a single pull of the trigger.”
Bump Stocks Matter: Banning Semiautomatic Firearms (April 2, 2018)
If this were a move to specifically ban bump-fire stocks or trigger cranks on product safety grounds (unstable, inaccurate, etc.) you’d see a lot less opposition to it. But if you read the language of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [NPRM] (and every submitted bill I’ve tracked down so far), that isn’t what is being addressed. It is clearly and explicitly a “problem” of “rate of fire,” in that these devices — training wheels — assist the shooter in merely approaching the semiautomatic firearm’s theoretical rate of fire. (In the case of bump-fire, by using recoil to let the trigger reset, for the next manual operation.)

That’s a partial listing. You can find more.

You know what else “increases” the rate of fire? The breechloading Ferguson Rifle. Pre-measured paper cartridges. Revolvers. Bolt/lever action rifles with magazines. Slicked bolts and polished trigger groups. New springs.

Anything that improves the action.

Might I suggest joining the one pro-RKBA group that has consistently warned of, and opposed, these bans other others ignored, under-stated, or even supported them?

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