6 Oct 2017 2:45 pm
They don't want legislation they want the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to institute additional regulations, which they may not be able to do.Sgt Bilko » 06 Oct 2017 2:08 pm » wrote: Shocking concept. Not allowing bump stocks on their range!!! They testified before congress pleading for gun legislation to make them have the same requirements as automatic weapons. $10,000 license fee plus psychological assessment. Bump stocks are super easy to turn into automatics.
The NRA is hoping to head off new legislation by calling on the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to strengthen regulations on bump stocks through "the existing federal gun laws," as executive NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said on Fox News Thursday night.
Critics say the problem with the NRA's approach to bump stocks is that regulators have already concluded several times that "ATF does not have the authority to restrict their lawful possession, use, or transfer," as the agency wrote in a 2013 letter to Congress.
The National Firearms Act, which regulates automatic weapons (called machine guns in the law), mechanically rather than by how rapidly they shoot.
"The term 'machine gun' means any weapon which shoots...automatically more than one shot...by a single function of the trigger,” the law states.
But bump stocks leave the mechanics of a gun untouched and the trigger is still technically activated on each shot, just at a much faster rate than is humanly possible without the modifications.
That leaves the ATF with little choice but to deem bump stocks legal under current law, said David Chipman, a former ATF agent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-v ... ks-n808441