The CRS, essentially a Library of Congress issues “think tank” for federal legislators—does not generally make its reports available to the public, despite our tax dollars funding them.
The proposal to ban bump stocks is nothing but a political game orchestrated by politicians like Nancy Pelosi. Most gun owners don’t even own bump stocks…
Republican majorities are in the House and in the Senate, and a Republican president is in the White House. They wouldn’t be there were it not for gun owners. Why are we talking more “gun control”?
This ANPRM is the initial step in a regulatory process to interpret the definition of machinegun to clarify whether certain bump stock devices fall within that definition.
In the end, this issue comes down to emotion. Analytically there is no reason that bump stocks should be banned.
Not only is Attorney General Becerra’s so-called ‘news release’ inaccurate and misleading,” said FPC President Brandon Combs, “it is almost certainly an illegal underground regulation.”
NRA Board of Directors must immediately issue a statement declaring the true position of the National Rifle Association, & that the statement from LaPierre & Cox did not accurately reflect that.
The GOP leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), threw cold water on the bump stock regulation discussion.
Don’t blame bump-stocks or ATF, don’t blame anybody but the evil people who perpetrated this crime. No law, no regulation stops those with evil in their hearts.
Throwing a scrap of meat to a pack of circling jackals and expecting them to then leave you alone is hardly “commonsense” …