WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his administration will “BAN” bump stock devices that “turn legal weapons into illegal machines.”
The Justice Department announced Friday that it has started the process to amend federal firearms regulations to clarify that federal law defines bump stocks as machine guns.
Trump had ordered Justice to work toward a ban after the Florida high school shooting. Bump stocks enable guns to fire like automatic weapons, and were used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre.
Trump tweeted Friday: “Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA. As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period.”
The government determined in 2010 that bump stocks couldn’t be regulated unless Congress changed the law.
See? We’re doing something.
We need top to bottom overhaul of our gun laws, not this piecemeal, token bullshit.
Not that I’m in favor of bump stocks–they’re horrific–but the shooter in Florida didn’t use one, did he? So they are trying to make the kids in Florida shut up by banning something that was used during a previous assault. I guess it’s too much to ask that they keep up with the carnage.
Pathetic president is running out of new ideas to feed the “look over there” con game.
Always circling inside it’s head, the same brain farts over and over again.
Trump, banned and bumped from country would be new and approved by most.
Point one is the constant deception with this guy. Saying the Obama Administration “legalized” bump stocks (which it instead determined it needed real legislation, not not a quickie-fix administrative rule, to correct).
Point two is the Obama Administration was probably RIGHT. A serious analysis determined that a quickie fix administrative rule will fail. The NRA will file suit to challenge it. And win. What is needed is for Congress to pass a federal statute, clearly banning bump stocks. So this Trumpian effort is window dressing, to make it look like they’re doing something.