Another run on magazines?

[Rastoff]

If mags become scarce, I have a few I'll sell for $300 a piece. I'm nice like that.

 

[bluesix]

I learned all I wished to know about bump fire stocks on the 15-22 forum. They were surprisingly popular among children wanting to play army during the .22 shortage. I got flipped off when I suggested they join up and get paid to shoot the real thing for free.

The most popular question on that forum seemed to be "Why won't it work?" The shooter in Las Vegas apparently had several jammed up and discarded on the floor when the police finally broke into the room.

If people are truly worried about restrictions being placed on magazines or any other idiotic "feel good" ideas coming out of Washington, the time to act is now, not after the congress critters have stopped talking and started to get real. I have gotten to be curmudgeonly over the years and tire of hearing, "But I couldn't afford it when they were plentiful and cheap". Get your priorities straight.

Not everybody who likes guns feels the need to serve the country unfortunately. As far as bumpstocks go the ATF approved them because they didn't meet the technical definition of machine gun.
The danger with letting the bumpstock ban go through is they are predicating the bill on anything that enhances/increases the rate for fire. Since virtually any semi can be bump fired (especially if the trigger has been replaced with a lighter pull unit) there is the precedent for banning semi autos.
I've had an AR since 1984, I joined the army after that as a 19d. Served 5 years, all peacetime. After OSUT know how much my m16a2/m203 got shot? twice a year, I did more small arms shooting as a civilian. Hand held m60 once, humvee mounted m2, once. After that I gunned a Bradley, all coax and 25mm and pistol quals twice a year.
My service was all in the 90's.

 

[hdwhit]

agksimon wrote:
I'm sure, after last week, they're going to try to ban them again

What makes you think this?

The media drumbeat has been focused on bump-fire stocks, tannerite, and the fact the shooter tried to buy tracer ammunition. So-called "high capacity magazines" have been conspicuous by their absence from the media hew and cry.

 

[Rastoff]

As far as bumpstocks go the ATF approved them because they didn't meet the technical definition of machine gun.

This is a misnomer. The ATF doesn't approve or disapprove anything. They simply issue a statement of their opinion on the ultimate use or classification of something. The ATF issued a letter stating that they didn't think the bump fire or slide fire stocks made a machine gun. A court could agree or disagree with that statement. The statement by itself is not law and the courts aren't required to follow it.

 

[bluesix]

This is a misnomer. The ATF doesn't approve or disapprove anything. They simply issue a statement of their opinion on the ultimate use or classification of something. The ATF issued a letter stating that they didn't think the bump fire or slide fire stocks made a machine gun. A court could agree or disagree with that statement. The statement by itself is not law and the courts aren't required to follow it.

I'll agree with that, obviously I am not an attorney.