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bump stops must stop
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bump stops must stop How can anyone justify not banning a device that allows a semi-auto weapon to imitate a full on machine gun with a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute? Do we want a war on civilians in our streets? Mowing down concert goers like happened in Las Vegas? Tell Congress now is the time to act to ban the bump stop! Democrats on Wednesday lined up behind a bill that would outlaw the the sale and possession of “bump stocks”, a device the Las Vegas gunman used to retrofit his weapons with rapid-fire capabilities, leaving 59 victims dead and more than 500 injured in just nine minutes. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a longtime advocate of stricter gun control, introduced the bill, which she had first brought forward after 20 and six adults were killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in December 2012. The earlier bill, which would have reinstated a federal assault weapons ban, failed by a wide margin in the Senate. Wednesday’s more narrowly tailored legislation would ban the import, sale, manufacturing, transfer or possession of “a trigger crank, a bump-fire” or similar devices that can retrofit semi-automatic weapons to fire at nearly the same rate as automatic ones, which are heavily regulated. “After Sandy Hook, when 20 first graders were slaughtered, I thought for sure we would act. After Orlando I thought we would act,” Feinstein said, listing mass shootings that have stunned the nation. “And now after Las Vegas, I hope senators will finally summon the political courage to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough.’” Bump stocks are legal and can be purchased online for less than $200. A semi-automatic weapon can typically fire between 45 and 60 rounds per minute. When retrofitted with a device, the weapon can fire between 400 and 800 rounds per minute – a rate similar to an automatic weapon, according to Feinstein. “I know what guns can do,” Feinstein said. But what happened in Las Vegas this week, she said, “is taking it into war”. An official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) told reporters on Tuesday that multiple bump stocks had been found in the hotel room used by the shooter, identified by police as Stephen Paddock. Feinstein dismissed criticism from Republicans, including the Senate majority leader, who on Tuesday said he found it “particularly inappropriate to politicize an event like this”. “There is no better way to honor the 59 people who were slaughtered than to take action to prevent this from happening yet again,” said Feinstein, a senator from California. “If not, then when will we ever do it?” |
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Actually the GOP is sounding like they might go for a bump stop ban. Not that banning them would stop mass murder, just slow the rate of fire somewhat...
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Any deal that leads to a gun control victory is a major step toward sanity.
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I am not angry. I am trying to cut down on the slaughter of the innocents. I am happy to spend energy on that goal until I die. If enough pressure and votes are spent on this effort change can happen. It has in other times and other places.
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Wouldn’t it be easier just to ban all guns like they have done to drugs?
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You cannot ban all guns without repealing the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. Not likely to happen.
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