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Bump Stocks Are Not Machine Guns, Sixth Circuit Rules

Of the 510,000 bump stocks sold, only 582 were actually turned in.

I think those at have them wont be using them...if for no other reason its hard to find sufficient amounts of ammo to justify it.
 
Tlrmln said:
How many bad guys have used bump stocks so far?

How many people have died because of them?
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Las Vegas shooting....IDK how many of the victims were killed by rifles, fitted with bump stocks.
 
Rich2018 said:
Las Vegas shooting....IDK how many of the victims were killed by rifles, fitted with bump stocks.
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And that's the only time something like that was used for evil. SOoooo let's blame everyone that has one and try to wrench it away from them because somehow they are to blame.
 
zsu2357 said:
And that's the only time something like that was used for evil. SOoooo let's blame everyone that has one and try to wrench it away from them because somehow they are to blame.
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On how many occasions did we see hijackers crash airliners into city skyscrapers ?
 
Rich2018 said:
Las Vegas shooting....IDK how many of the victims were killed by rifles, fitted with bump stocks.
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The Las Vegas shooting was the only incident I've ever heard of. It's debateable whether the use of bump stocks enabled him to kill more people at all than he could have killed without them. He had a solid 10 minutes to shoot at an essentially unlimited number of people.
 
From my reading of the opinion, it appears to hinge almost exclusively on the statute that defines a machine gun as a weapon firing multiple rounds with a single pull of the trigger. The court is saying that the ATF can not interpret bump stocks as meeting this definition and instead the statute would have to change via legislation. Seems simple enough for congress to address... Given the current makeup of congress, proponents should be very cautious giving reasons for congress pass new gun legislation... ;)
 
Tlrmln said:
The Las Vegas shooting was the only incident I've ever heard of. It's debateable whether the use of bump stocks enabled him to kill more people at all than he could have killed without them. He had a solid 10 minutes to shoot at an essentially unlimited number of people.
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I think the number of people there was finite

He didn't have the right gun to inflict massive casualties

Still he probably fired more shots than he would have done so without the bump stocks.
 
zsu2357 said:
We saw it once well twice really and then the all hail Patriot Act was born then the HLS then the TSA. Aren't we lucky?
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Exactly my point. The US government will act quick enough if it can or it suits them.
 
It's more like a hack than a machine gun. I doubt the rate of fire is very good.
 
swing_voter said:
It's more like a hack than a machine gun. I doubt the rate of fire is very good.
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They take a little getting used to to get your technique down, but you can come pretty close in rate of fire, accuracy on the other hand goes out the window.
 
Chillfolks said:
They take a little getting used to to get your technique down, but you can come pretty close in rate of fire, accuracy on the other hand goes out the window.
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A fully automatic weapon shoots about 14 rounds per second. Using a bump stock with a semi automatic AR-15 gave the Las Vegas shooter the ability to fire about 9 shots per second, according to analysis of footage by the New York Times.

Bump stocks are slower by a pretty big margin.


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If a bump stock has a rof of 9 rounds a second, I'm pretty sure there are people who can get close to that just with their finger. That old guy on youtube, Gerry something or other. He's a pro rapid target shooter.
 
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