Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Fair enough.

 

Wouldn’t seem to say anything, right?

Now, how you define it, and whether you could prohibit someone from making there own might be a different story.

Should be able to ban interstate sales of them without any constitutional issues I would think.

 

What does it say about semi-automatic rifles?

 

Who knows? They are a big corporate brand, they may have decided to pull them as a matter of getting in front of a public relations problem. I imagine everyone who still stocks them has marked them up and is selling out of stock in advance of a likely ban on bump stocks.

"I gotta get me one of those while I still can!"

 

The NRA's social media person must be on vacation this week. No tweets since Sept. 29.

 

Shall not be abridged.

 

What does the Constitution say about a rocket launcher?

 

Doesn’t addresss them.

 

My goodness, it is almost as if the Founding Fathers and the 2017 National Rifle Association were coincidentally of one mind!

 

No one knew early on what the mechanism was, but anyone with more than the sketchiest knowledge of firearms heard the sounds on the video and knew that what they were hearing was a very high rate of fire, far different from the "pop pop pop" of aimed semiautomatic fire. We had no way to know whether it was a trigger crank, a bump stock, a home modified action, or an illegally bought or stolen full auto gun.

What *was* completely obvious what that normal guns simply don't fire that fast, period. When a gun is firing multiple rounds per second, the generic term is "automatic fire". That's why people used the term.

You can play lawyer and count the angels dancing on a pin as long as you wish, but what was going into that crowd was full auto fire, whatever the mechanism was that was dropping the firing pin. A rifle that empties a sixty round magazine in six seconds is not firing semi-auto.

 

Or semi-automatic rifles.

 

Yeah, I'm sure there was a rush on them. These things had kind of run their course and were no longer a hot item. Tannerite was the new hotness and the AR guys had moved from bump stocks to hanging every piece of equipment possible on their handguard rails to get that "operator" look.

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