Lynyrd wrote:Fienstien just filed a bill to ban bump stocks.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 731611001/
The bill would ban the sale, transfer, importation, manufacture or possession of bump stocks, trigger cranks and similar accessories that accelerate a semi-automatic rifle’s rate of fire. Feinstein said the "short and plain spoken language" of the bill will let everyone know what is banned, "no matter how fancy the device is."
I'm not a great proponent of these things. To me they are more or less toys designed to help you waste a lot of ammo. The only time they might come in handy is when 30 wild hogs are in front of you, which happens about twice a month on my place. Maybe fewer of the swine would get away.
I agree. I actually wouldn't care much if they banned these things. They don't really serve a practical purpose in my eyes.
A semi-auto rifle simply isn't designed for the stress of full-auto, particularly the barrel. Furthermore, without a mount of some kind your accuracy (the major benefit of a rifle) goes down the tubes. Additionally, it wastes ammo unnecessarily. I can't think of a single legitimate purpose for using a bump stock aside from the simple, expensive fun of using it.
While I'm all for 2A freedoms, this seems less like a 2A issue and more like a fun issue - none of the reasons we present in 2A debate come into play here. They aren't useful for hunting, they aren't useful for self protection, they aren't an effective replacement for a machine gun, so the overthrowing tyrannical government argument becomes moot, the military doesn't use them (and God willing, never will) so we can't use the "military equivalent" argument...I don't see a defense for these things, nor a reason to defend them except for that of general, all-encompassing freedom. If they ban 'em, eh - so what.
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