Trump moves to ban bump stocks
The Las Vegas shooter used one but the kid in Florida did not.
A good idea, but will Trump really do even this?
Come to that, it is questionable whether this essentially legislative change can be constitutionally accomplished by a mere regulative change or presidential edict.
Needless to say, in his usual mushhead fashion, Bozo misdescribes the nature and function of bump stocks.
What he appears to want is to ban any aftermarket devices that speed the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle.
That is what bump stocks do.
They do not convert semi-automatic rifles into machine guns.
Machine guns are fully automatic firearms, and conversion of some semi-automatic rifles, such as the AR - 15, to fully automatic firing, while possible, is illegal, and the mass shootings so widespread in America do not involve use of fully automatic weapons.
They do not even, generally, involve use of bump-stocks or any other aftermarket device that increases the weapon's rate of fire.
They do generally involve the use of numerous high-capacity magazines, the federal ban on which was allowed to expire by Republicans.
Trump has not proposed restoring the ban.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has directed his attorney general to propose changes that would ban bump fire stocks, which make it easier to fire rounds more quickly.
The move adds his voice to a process that began in December, two months after a gunman used the device in a shooting that left scores dead at a concert in Las Vegas.
"Just a few moments ago I signed a memo directing the attorney general to propose regulations that ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns," Trump said at a Medal of Valor event at the White House, addressing Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
"I expect these regulations to be finalized, Jeff, very soon," Trump said.
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