If you are one of the estimated half a million people who bought a bump stock that didn't turn it in or reported it destroyed, starting tomorrow, the Trump administration can jail you for up to 10 years.
Sadly, the administration made material errors in describing the way the bump stock works, and the effect of mounting one on a semiautomatic rifle. (The rifle remains semi-automatic, with the function of the action unchanged: one trigger pull per round fired). All the stock changes is the ability to pull the trigger more efficiently resulting in a faster rate of fire.
The effect can be duplicated by simpler and less permanent means, and that creates a gray area. The firearm still remains semiautomatic. So what is next? Ban belt loops and trigger fingers?
Another unfortunate effect of this edict, is that a fundamental Civil Right is being infringed, in direct contravention to the Constitution, and property is being seized or criminalized, without recourse, (by a rule made by a bureaucratic agency after the property was declared okay by a previous administration), without compensation, without considering the
ex post facto nature of the rule for all such property existing before the rule was made or went into effect.
That this is being done based on the still sketchy details of one incident allegedly involving one nutcase, yet affecting some 500,000 people who have the devices
who have done no wrong is an obscenity, and flies in the face of the Fifth, 14th, and a few other Amendments besides the Second.
Now, for any Gubmint guys tuning in: I don't have one of these stocks, never did, and didn't particularly want something which, in my estimation, only runs through ammo faster and less accurately.
So, no need to doxx me and knock on my door.
If I did have one, you wouldn't get it anyway.
There's lots of prairie out here to hide things.
I suspect it's much the same elsewhere.
A lot of these will be dead and buried....
