One of the many things you need to be following. It starts with bump-stocks but are they going to start coming after other “Scary looking” Items? We as responsible gun owners need to continue to fight to keep the 2nd Amendment going strong. Again, we have to reiterate that just posting on Facebook or in the comments on a YouTube video is NOT going to help our cause. We need to be more active as responsible gun owners and make our voices heard. Whether its writing your congressman, senators, or at the ballot box. Because if we don’t this could very well could lead to that slippery slope of everything getting banned.
During a White house press conference President Trump stated that his administration is just a few weeks away from finalizing a regulation that would ban bump stocks, devices that simulate automatic fire in semiautomatic weapons.
“We’re knocking out bump stocks,” the president stated at a White House news conference last month.
Fox4 Writes that the Trump administration plans to announce the long-anticipated federal rule officially banning bump stocks in the coming days, according to US officials familiar with the matter.
Bump stocks gained national attention last year after a gunman in Las Vegas rigged his weapons with the devices to fire on concertgoers, killing 58 people. President Donald Trump vowed to outlaw the devices soon after the tragedy, and some lawmakers on Capitol Hill urged him to back a permanent legislative fix.
But opposition from lawmakers and the National Rifle Association ultimately made a regulatory change the only realistic path forward to accomplishing the President’s goal.
The devices make it easier to fire rounds from a semi-automatic weapon by harnessing the gun’s recoil to “bump” the trigger faster — an operation that caused officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives during the Obama administration to conclude that it’s merely a gun accessory or firearm part, not subject to federal regulation.
At Trump’s direction, however, the Justice Department submitted a proposed final rule earlier this year that upended the Obama-era interpretation, and concluded that bump-fire stocks, “slide-fire” devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics all fall within the prohibition on machine guns by allowing a “shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger,” and therefore, they are illegal under federal law.
Under the new rule, bump stock owners would be required to destroy or surrender the devices to authorities. Members of the public will be given 90 days to turn in or otherwise discard their bump stocks, according to a source familiar with the final rule.
“Bump stocks turn semiautomatic guns into illegal machine guns. This final rule sends a clear message: Illegal guns have no place in a law-and-order society, and we will continue to vigorously enforce the law to keep these illegal weapons off the street,” a senior Justice Department official told CNN Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers, who are typically opposed to federal agencies writing regulations to accomplish what Congress hasn’t directly legislated, had insisted that the Justice Department and ATF write a new regulation. Whereas some Democrats, such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, have…
Under the new rule…
This comes after the one year anniversary of the Vegas shooting in which Stephen Paddock killed 58 people at a music festival.
Furthermore there is H.R.7115 – 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act that was recently which can be seen here! These are just a few examples of what we are up against and why it is so important to take action and make our voices heard!
You need to take action. Reach out to the NRA especially if you are a member. This is what starts that slippery slope. After they ban bump-stocks what are they going to come after next? Will it be your competition triggers? Your pistol braces? Both bans will open Pandora’s box and will make the attack on our 2nd amendment writes worse than it is now.