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Whether the guy was using an "automatic" or merely a "doctored to be automatic" isn't a trivial issue w.r.t. policy discussions.

 

Honestly, I don't know how bump stocks weren't banned by the ATF about three minutes after they went on the market.

 

The feral hog hunt concern seems paramount at this time.

 

I don't have a clue ... maybe the ATF's authority doesn't extend that far?

 

Googled "ATF" and "bump stock" and came across this link ...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...ds/BATFE.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0qHT1pM4AMddiHbIIEt-QF

From the linked document:

 

Yeah, they got it through a loophole in the ATF regs. But it should have been closed pretty quickly. What's the point of making full auto extremely expensive to purchase and subject to an extensive background check (much deeper than a normal gun purchase) if you can buy an untraceable and cheap add-on at the gun store that subverts all the rules and regs?

And I guess YF needs to call Sen. Cotton and tsk-tsk about the automatic weapon thing. The former Army Ranger went one step beyond that and said it sounded like a belt-fed squad weapon.

Cotton: Las Vegas shooter's weapon sounded like 'belt-fed machine gun'

 

True.

The policy, AKA the Second Amendment, just must be replaced.

I don't understand how we can take the Founding Father's support for slavery and alter that within the Constitution but we can't touch the Second Amendment, murky as it is.

 

Photos circulating which reportedly show two of the rifles confirm the bump stock theory.

 

Slavery was eliminated with the 13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

So of course the 2nd Amendment could be touched, with a one-sentence addition to the Constitution: "The second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Pass it and send it to the states for ratification. If Congress won't do its part, the states could convene a constitutional convention.

Of course that's not going to happen. Because, troubling as this fact may be, "the people" really don't want it to happen.

 

It's like when they sent their neighbors and family members to the gulag in Russia:

http://splinternews.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-president-asks-peop-1819077393

 

Practically guaranteeing Trump will try to withdraw from it.

 

Use your brain. Tally up the number killed and injured and the amount of time it took one guy to inflict that. Combined with the audio samples.

If you want to cling to the idea that his guy pulled the trigger to send every bullet out, then I can't help you.