Bump Stock Owners Not Exactly Burning Up The Roads To Turn Them In
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 7 months ago
Most local and area law enforcement agencies aren’t seeing a flood of bump stocks, attachments that allow shooters to continuously fire semi-automatic weapons, being turned in as a result of a federal ban that went into effect a week ago.
Only one agency reached by The State Journal-Register had reported a bump stock being turned over.
As of March 26, owners had 90 days to surrender the devices to local law enforcement agencies or to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or to destroy them on their own.
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-sentence order upholding the ban.
In October 2017, a gunman used a bump stock to rain gunfire down from a Las Vegas hotel room, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds of others at a country music festival.
The novelty of the device — and some say its inaccuracy — have made it a bit of rarity among gun owners.
“I don’t think it’s a popular item,” said Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, adding that none have been turned into his office.
“It’s a possibility (some could still be turned in). I don’t know how many were purchased in Sangamon County, and we don’t track the sales.
“You’re going to have a few holdouts. There were gun owners who were adamant that this was part of their Second Amendment right to keep it.”
“What I’ve found out about bump stocks is that they’re unique,” Morgan County Sheriff Mike Carmody said.
Carmody’s office also hasn’t handled any since the ban, though he expects the issue to come up in conversation with gun advocates.
Carmody also said he was unsure if owners would strictly adhere to the ban, but “I guarantee that anyone who has a bump stock knows the law.”
Menard County Sheriff Mark Oller said the only bump stock turned into his office was done so weeks before the ban took effect.
“Someone was going through a person’s estate (when it was found),” Oller said. “It had never been used. It was still in the package.
“It’s not surprising that only one was turned in because I don’t think there are many out there.”
Yea, you keep telling yourself that. Nationally, some 550,000 of them. But here’s the real question, Sheriff. If America is going to make felons out of innocent and peaceable men, what’s the purpose in stopping with bump stocks? Why not SBRs, suppressors and fully automatic weapons?
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On April 3, 2019 at 8:34 am, Fred said:
“…attachments that allow shooters to continuously fire semi-automatic weapons.”
This simply isn’t true.
“In October 2017, a gunman used a bump stock to rain gunfire down from a Las Vegas hotel…”
There’s no evidence of this as the weapons were not properly examined.
“On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-sentence order upholding the ban.”
Banning firearms accessories by extra-constitutional fiat, how could the Second Amendment have meant anything else?
On April 3, 2019 at 11:24 am, Andrew said:
If anybody hoped “The Supremes” would save the Second Amendment, look at them upholding The Ban on Bumpy Stocks.
Keep that in mind.
On April 3, 2019 at 8:51 pm, moe mensale said:
“As of March 26, owners had 90 days to surrender the devices to local law enforcement agencies or to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or to destroy them on their own.”
Wrong. The bump stock ban final rule was published in the Federal Register on 12-26-18. That’s when the 90 day surrender window opened. Owners had until midnight, March 25, 2019 to turn them in. If you possessed a bump stock on March 26, 2019 you were officially a felon.
On April 4, 2019 at 12:19 am, Steve Miller said:
Lessee the gubmint’s authority to tell us what property we can and cannot possess can be found in Article……Section….. of muh consteetooshun……..
On April 6, 2019 at 7:50 pm, Michael Donato said:
Would be a very tough call as to wether to go to prison for what is essentially a toy. But this not going to end. After the next publicized shooting I can see Trump and Linda Graham pushing through an absolute ‘assult weapons’ ban. We don’t have long before it will get real sporty—if anyone still wants to live with some sembelence of freedom. We won’t have to wait for Demcommunist prez.