Who knew? The Bump Stock.

If I remember rightly machine guns (auto fire) we're banned in the 1930s.

You can't find them, you can't buy them unless one is a deathly collector with $10,000 bucks to spend and willing to go through years of Federal investigation.

Yet there is this thing. The Bump Stock.

They sell it for $19.99 and you can put it on your Semi-auto AR15 (legal) and turn it into an "auto" with out re-engineering the mechanics.

I really don't want to get into a 2A cluster.

But this, this, is so very very wrong.

Who was first to take the floor and demand banning? Oh, the Bernster.

Go figure.

I warn you up front, if you go to their site your browser ads will be populated by killer ads.

We are so f'd and addicted to $$. Somewhere in the multi-demensions this thing makes sense. Just ask Michio Kaku if you need help on the multi thing.

ALL ABOUT BUMP STOCKS, THE DEADLY GUN ACCESSORY USED IN VEGAS THAT CONGRESS MIGHT BAN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/04/all-about-bump...

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edg's picture

but it used to be you could just file away a bit of metal near the safe/fire mechanism to turn an AR-15 into an M16 equivalent. The only difference between the civilian and military rifles was the missing 3rd position -- safe, semi, auto.

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You can accomplish the same thing as the bump stock by somehow hooking your hand on your belt when firing.

No way in hell our bought and paid for Congress passes a GD thing that will benefit the societythey are paid to represent.

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@dkmich

No way in hell our bought and paid for Congress passes a GD thing that will benefit the society they are paid to represent.

But they are legislating to benefit those who pay them to represent them!

(You weren't thinking of the pittances the taxpayers pay them, were you? I'm talking about their real paychecks here, and the payers of the same!)

Bad

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riverlover's picture

Shot in ducks is very hard on teeth and fillings. Polite hosts put little glass containers on the table for such.

Was he loaded with exploding ammo, too?

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mimi's picture

it makes me want to vomit and I am just amazed that people are not ashamed to make those videos and post them.

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Big Al's picture

That's the meme going around the conservative, NRA, right wing circles to defend their second amendment rights to own nuclear weapons.

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@Big Al

big difference.

there's nothing you can do about evil.

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WoodsDweller's picture

I probably shouldn't be so proud of myself, but this is what I thought it was from listening to the video. I couldn't remember the name, though.
Feinstein has rushed to introduce a bill to ban them. So far 26 co sponsors. If she wrote it, I'm sure it has "Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in" somewhere in the fine print. If she wrote a bill about drunk driving, it would ban blue pickups or anything that could be converted to a blue pickup, where a pickup is defined as anything with a cargo capacity greater than her handbag. Don't let that woman within 100 meters of a gun control bill.
The problem with these things is that they don't make the rifle an automatic. If it did it would already be illegal as hell. It's still one round per trigger pull, and doesn't modify the "gun" (defined as the receiver). It "assists" you in pulling the trigger at 5x the speed. So it's a loophole. It's going to require very carefully crafted language to address it.
Remember, the BATF has to issue a permit to manufacture these things. If they had any relevant legislation to work with, they would have never OKed it.
The good news is that this is something that could be banned if you write the correct language, and probably shouldn't exist in the first place, it isn't a hard sell to many 2A supporters, plausibly addresses part of the actual problem, and unlike most gun control might actually do some net good.
It's not clear that there's any political upside to this for Republicans, though, and they're running the show. If they had two brain cells to rub together, they would attach this as an amendment to the suppressor bill they've been working on. They could claim that they addressed the massacre as well as getting a win for gun owners. They look good to their voters and at least have something real to talk about on the Sunday talk shows. I doubt they are that smart, though.
Of course the real problem isn't bump fire, or magazine size, or caliber, or how many guns he had in the room that he didn't use. The problem is that he was a sniper in a nearly ideal position. He had 10-15 minutes of uninterrupted fire time. While he wouldn't have been able to wound so many people (and that matters) in the time he had without this gizmo, he could have still killed dozens regardless of what he was using. If you've got some magic way of neutralizing snipers, the Army would like to hear from you. Even in our modern drone/stealth bomber/smart bomb/spy satellite war machine there is still a role for snipers, they are freaking deadly as hell and hard to defend against.
I strongly suspect after this that similar venues will have to pay to station a SWAT sniper on a roof somewhere overlooking the crowd to try to engage a shooter. And why doesn't that make me feel safer?

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Ravensword's picture

Fucking ammosexuals and their obsession with what the wingnut perception of the Founding Father’s. Surely, Madison, Adams, Jefferson, et al., would love nothing to see than private citizens stockpiling tons of automatic weapons or using devices to simulate automatic fire.

Also, that device looks like it makes the weapon less accurate. Good for idiots who only know how to spray and pray.

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Lenzabi's picture

Accuracy is not as needed when firing into a massed close packed herd of humans distracted by a concert or other such distraction. Hate to say it, but it is there.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

@Lenzabi

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