FPC Statement on Proposed Semi-Auto Firearms, “Bump Fire” Stocks Ban

Slide Fire SSAR-15 SBS Bump Fire Stock
Slide Fire SSAR-15 SBS Bump Fire Stock

Firearms Policy CoalitionSACRAMENTO, Calif. -(Ammoland.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has issued the following statement concerning calls for new bans and regulations on firearms and firearm accessories:

In depraved acts of self-centered posturing, politicians who do not respect our Constitution are leveraging the recent tragedy in Las Vegas to push for more unconstitutional bans and restrictions on common, semi-automatic firearms and their accessories. These important Second Amendment-protected instruments are purchased, possessed, and responsibly used for lawful purposes by millions of Americans across our great nation.

Just as blogs and websites are protected by the First Amendment, and the Fourth Amendment’s shield against unreasonable searches and seizures applies to advanced devices like an iPhone, so too are modern semi-automatic firearms like AR-15s and their appurtenances protected by the Second Amendment.

History shows that gun control is a one-way ratchet, with so-called “compromises” resulting only in more laws that affect law-abiding people and fewer ways to exercise Second Amendment rights. And there is no textual, circumstantial, or emotional exception to the Constitution’s guarantee that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Law-abiding gun owners will not be bullied by killers or politicians, nor will we give up fundamental individual liberties at the shrill cries of Marxist Democrats or unprincipled Republicans, wealthy Hollywood elitists, the alt-left news media, or billionaire-backed Astroturf groups.

All unconstitutional laws are unjust, illegitimate, and offensive to the rule of law—even if they are enacted in response to a very real tragedy. FPC opposes all restrictions on the acquisition, possession, carry, and use of common, semi-automatic firearms, ammunition, and accessories by law-abiding people.

Whatever the conversation our country might wish to have about the evils found in human nature, and whatever questions we as a society might have about how to better address those moral and cultural deficiencies, no legitimate answers will be found in additional emotion-driven gun control laws that undermine our American system of ordered liberty

FPC calls on House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and every member of Congress to pass important legislation to protect and advance the Second Amendment rights of law abiding people without further obstruction or delay. That is the job they were elected to do.

About Firearms Policy Coalition:

Firearms Policy Coalition is a 501(c)4 grassroots nonprofit organization. FPC’s mission is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, especially the fundamental, individual Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

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Donald Sprague

I would like to join the firearms policy coalition,What is their Email address?

george sherman

No compromise is the responsible stand. Think about bump-stocks, if they were used in a second crime. Since they are inaccurate, banning them would make criminal shooters more deadly. We are safer if the criminal fools use bump-stocks. I say leave things as they were before Las Vegas.

Jim

What Rock said, especially the part about the treatment of convicted felons.

Abner Little

It is evident over the last decades that the Let has infiltrated the NRA. all is required is to apply and pay memberhsip. Work your way up with money and personable people. Most have been kept at arms length. Just being among us they glean information to use against us. The Left focuses on the NRA but how many millions of us are the NRA now:30,000,000? Not one of these Mass Murderers have been NRA Members.The Murderers, of the Chicago, Mexican Drug Cartels, and Mexican Mafia, and Black and Latino Central American Gangs, killing many hundreds each year. They are… Read more »

Tom Carie

As a responsible gun owner and NRA Life Member, I see no reason why the bumpstock should not be banned. It’s not something a legal hunter would use in the field and it’s certainly not something something I would be using on a target range for 50 yards or 1,000 yards.
By banning the bumpstock we aren’t giving up our gun rights to those who support gun bans, we are acting as responsible gun owners to try and keep these devices out of the hands of deranged individuals.

Harold

Here we have another supposed ‘responsible gun owner’. “That there doohickey ain’t no good fer shootin’ deer, so it ain’t got no use fer me an’ ain’t pertected by the sec’nd ‘mendment.” There was a time, long ago, before weekly mass shootings, when you could go into a hardware store and walk out with a fully automatic Thompson submachine gun. Yeah, gangsters misused them, but those were very, very isolated incidents, and rarely did the violence spill over into the non-mob population. A knee-jerk reaction led to the federal registration of fully automatic weapons. In the 1980s, during a rash… Read more »

Roy D.

So Tom is “a responsible gun owner and a NRA Life Member.” He is also an ignorant fool or an enemy of the Constitution. Seems about right.

Tom Carie

Roy I figured that I would receive a reply like yours and Harolds.
It’s hard for me to understand where your heads are at or what drives your paranoia.
Seems there always has to be immature name calling when someone has a difference of opinion.
Regardless, I don’t believe the 2nd Amendment was ever written for what this country is facing today with mass shootings and psychotic individuals who’s only desire is to unleash death and destruction. It was written to give individuals the right to bear arms against tyranny from our government.

Paladin

And what kind of weapons does the government issue it’s troops? Can you say automatic? The original intent of the 2nd Amendment was, as you say, to give individual the right to bear arms against tyranny. What chance do we have standing against tyranny when “they” out-gun us at every point. ‘I just calls em as I sees em’

Saddletramp

The M-16 rifle issued by the government is not automatic fire. It is selective fire. Unless under training or combat situations, the standard rate of fire is semi-automatic.

JCH

Here we go! Another usesless gun owner that believes the 2A is about “hunting”.
Before you post comments like the 2 above. Read the constitution and bill of rights. And the history and arguments surrounding their creation. Then you will have a better idea of why we have a 2A. And you will save yourself a lot of embarrassment from making stupid comments!
The 2A is not about hunting or sporting. It’s about freedom from tyranny. And just because you cannot agree with that fact, doesn’t mean it isn’t a fact.

Rock

So Tom, you would have no problem going back to a muzzle loader, no reason to have a lever, bolt, semi to do the same thing that flintlock will do. The across the board problem is not the bumpstock, ONE person used it. The problem is the non fearing person pulling the trigger. The criminal has more rights than the law abiding citizen anymore. Libs and Dems that create the “gun control” laws that are only adhered to by LEGAL citizens are the SAME people that have stopped the executions of the criminals because “they have rights” or “it’s cruel… Read more »

Roy D.

Tom, I was not “name calling” I was giving what I believe to be an accurate description of you. Your last paragraph shows your poor grasp of the situation.

Harold

??? You imply we should ban certain types of weapons and/or weapon accessories because of psychopaths, but in the next sentence you contradict your first comment by stating the Second Amendment is there for people to bear arms against a tyrannical government. What are we to use against this tyrannical government? Ideally, we should have the right to own tanks & fighter jets if we ever have to go up against our military turned against its citizens. Otherwise, we will be cannon fodder. As an aside, 2A is about the “security of a free state”. This implies more than just… Read more »

Vanns40

You, unfortunately don’t understand the issue, don’t understand the Constitution or the Second Amendment and, under strict scrutiny, in a debate, would lose in less than five minutes.

Vanns40

Just sent him an email to see what he’s up to.

JS

Part of me says I see no value in a bumpstock so sure lets give it up. I have hunting friends who also say there is no need for semi automatics in hunting and others that say we dont need concealed carry. They will give up those items so they can continue to hunt. The point is we must be all in in this struggle. No compromises. We have been doing exactly that for several decades and the compromises never stop. You cant even buy a standard AR in California today because the gun owners in California gave up. Our… Read more »

JDL

Funny, I don’t remember the 2A saying that we have the right to keep and bear only arms that Tom Carie has a use for. Amazing how they anticipated that over 150 years before Tom Carie was born, isn’t it?

Tionico

if they REALLY wanted to do something useful to reduce such events as this latest shooting, they’d be taking effective action on the issue of psychotropic drugs being so widely prescribed. From what I’ve seen, with perhaps one or two exceptions every one of the mass shootings and attempted mass shootings for decades had the perpetators taking those drugs. Navy Yard, Aurura theatre, COlumbine, SandyHood, the Arizona shooting that killed some at a political gathering, and this present Las Vegas shooting…. every one of them.

Scotty Gunn

Way too much money and kick backs at risk there. Might as well try to stop ethanol use in gasoline, which costs so much money in ruined equipment every year. Too many kick backs to go away.