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.

Bump stocks, trigger cranks, binary triggers. Personally, I'm not a fan of banning any of them. It'll do zero to reduce violence, and it won't do much (if anything) to stop crazy or evil people from shooting people.

And much like the direction they took with the Brady Bill, I fault the NRA and their cash grab. 

Instead of supporting keeping guns out of the hands of *** bags who shouldn't own firearms, or lobbying for increased access to firearm training, the NRA takes the hard line of 'no changes, everyone gets a gun!' Uneducated lawmakers capitalize on that to pass meaningless legislation.