Trump admin bans Bump Stocks

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(03-26-2019, 12:06 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Bump stocks are, as I've said numerous times before, a stupid range toy.  You can achieve the same effect with the belt loop on your jeans.  Banning them is a typical political sop to people who will go to bed thinking that something of substance was done.  I've also said this numerous times, politicians like to appear to do things far more than they like actually doing something.  Banning them will have zero effect on firearm related homicides.  Or, as Dean Wormer would say, zero-point-zero.

(03-26-2019, 12:25 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: No disagreement here. While I think it was the correct move, it's not like there was a bunch of homicides utilizing bump stocks. This won't have any real, measurable effect on anything.

So they were, as I said, unnecessary.  Easy to ban them then since they serve no real purpose.