And The Number Of Bump Stocks Actually Turned In?
BY Herschel Smith
5 years ago
The federal government collected fewer than 1,000 bump stocks during the run-up to a new ban in March, despite estimates that hundreds of thousands of the devices that mimic machine gun fire are in circulation, according to federal data provided to The Washington Times by the Justice Department.
As the nation marked the second anniversary Oct. 1 of the Las Vegas massacre, which prodded the Trump administration to ban bump stocks, the numbers offer a cautionary tale on the scope and resources needed to enforce any sort of gun buyback program.
Between the issuance of the final rule banning the devices in December 2018 and April 4, 2019, shortly after the prohibition took effect in late March, 582 bump stocks were “abandoned” to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to Justice Department records, and 98 bump stocks were kept as evidence.
The Times obtained the records through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The administration cited estimates that 280,000 to 520,000 bump-stock-type devices were in circulation when it published the final rule in December.
I’ve seen estimates as high as 550,000 in circulation, but we’ll take their number of 520,000. That computes to 0.1119%.
What do you think will happen when the FedGov demands that citizens turn over $1000 rifles which have been bought with the intent of bequeathing to their children for personal defense?
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On October 9, 2019 at 4:20 pm, Matt said:
Um, people aren’t going to turn in a $450 truck gun when the FedGov demands it.
On October 10, 2019 at 8:02 am, Frank Clarke said:
https://dispatchesfromheck.blogspot.com/2015/12/heretofore-otherwise-law-abiding-gun.html
(heh heh heh…)
On October 11, 2019 at 1:00 pm, Sunny said:
Trump is responsible for this crap. He should have just kept his mouth shut and done nothing with bump stocks.
No one has any good evidence – and I mean EVIDENCE – that the poor sucker they killed in the room used a bump stock at all. Or that he was the one who was doing the shooting.
I believe nothing the govt stooges tell me any longer.
sunny
On October 11, 2019 at 7:58 pm, Fred said:
Come and take it.
On October 12, 2019 at 4:33 pm, Fred said:
That was the another guy. I prefer not engage in a firefight over my weapons. Thanks.