The Impending Bump Stock Ban
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 11 months ago
It’s unclear what the president hopes to accomplish by alienating his strongest supporters at a time he is being closed in on from all sides by powers intent on destroying him. If he believes this will satisfy the gun-grabbers and make them go away, that ignores everything about their incremental tactics. Experience shows they will take a piece here and a “compromise” there, and then use that position to launch their next demand for more.
And if you don’t think this will alienate his allies, just spend a few minutes reading the comments at Breitbart.
Trump has little real political sense concerning his base, and he’s being led by people who are the same. And David is right. This isn’t just about bump stocks – it’s more about the incrementalism this catalyzes.
On December 2, 2018 at 10:31 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
The proposed ban on bump stocks isn’t just an issue of violating the Second Amendment, although it is certainly that. It is also a Fifth Amendment issue, i.e., the ban being an unconstitutional confiscation of private property without just compensation and without due process of law. Simply put, if this ban is allowed to stand, it in effect legalizes theft by the government of lawfully-purchased property that the citizen owns.
A few years ago and after a protracted period of deliberation and study of the issue, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that so-called “bump stocks” were legal and did not violate the relevant provisions of the 1934 Firearms Act and other applicable statutes. Now, the government has arbitrarily changed its mind and countermanded its previous edict, at the stroke of a pen making scores of ordinary and previously law-abiding Americans into de facto criminals. The bump stock ban also allows the government to take your stuff without compensation, financial or otherwise… and why? Because they feel like it.
If this fiasco does not make a mockery of the rule of law, I don’t know what does. Worse yet, contrary to mainstream media reports, bump stocks weren’t even used at the Las Vegas shooting.
Current and former members of the armed forces present at the scene during the shooting report that at least two fully-automatic weapons were used, and that the audio (muzzle reports) and visual signatures matched those of actual machine guns and not bump stock-equipped weapons. Recently-retired BATFE agent Thomas Ahern reaffirms this observation, saying that fully-automatic weapons were used at the Vegas massacre.
In effect, the American people are being punished for something that did not happen. The official narrative being put forth in the mainstream media-deep-state propaganda ministry stinks to high heaven, and is fuller of holes than a Swiss Cheese.
On December 3, 2018 at 7:18 am, ragman said:
Sir: I respectfully disagree. The communists surrounding Trump know exactly what they’re doing. This is a “shit test “ administered to the American Citizens. They want to see just how far they can get and how we react. This is nothing compared to what’s coming down the pike when the likes of O’Rourk, Abrams and Gillum take over.
On December 3, 2018 at 8:13 am, Len Savage said:
What if bumps stocks were not used in the Mandalay Bay Shooting of Oct 1, 2017?
What if there is no recorded crime having ever been committed with one?
What if the shooting occurred using a device the ATF already banned in 1981 (ATF Ruling 81-4) and DOJ knows this?
A bump type stock function would be negatively impacted by gravity if you point it downward (system now has to lift the weight of the firearm not just back and forth equation).
So unless the law of gravity was repealed in Vegas I call bullshit on bump fire.
If there was any shred of forensic evidence DOJ would have made a point to show everyone….That they are conspicuous in the lack of presented evidence of actual use of a bump stock should tell you to demand the evidence.
When under FOIA you demand the evidence and suddenly DOJ, FBI, and ATF go silent, you KNOW something is up.
On December 4, 2018 at 7:57 pm, Gryphon said:
Definitive Proof for all to See, Trump is just another one of the ‘Eliteist’, Overclass, Swamp-Dwelling Traitors to the Republic.
It is Also good Evidence for those who had (before the (s)Election) Said that Trump was a “Bone thrown to the Right” when (((they))) realized that the Hildabeast would have Precipitated the Full-On (un)Civil War that (((they))) Fear. Trump is a Delaying Tactic by the Swamp and its Owners to continue the Incremental Banning of Weapons for the Citizens… Problem Is, It’s Too Late Now, too Many Hundreds of Millions of Guns to ever ‘take’.
Time ot Buy More Ammo…