Congress’ deadly dereliction of duty: Republicans are blocking action on bump stocks, which let semiautomatics fire continuously. That’s the headline at nydailynews.com. The anti-gun rights daily reader reckons . . .
As the nation absorbed the insanity that civilians not only can buy weapons of war, but can equip them with bump stocks that allow them to squeeze off nine rounds a second, even Republicans in Congress knew better than to defend the indefensible.
What the Republican pols said is one thing. What they haven’t done is another.
Over in the Senate, not one Republican is signed onto Dianne Feinstein’s bump-stock ban. The Judiciary Committee is “considering a hearing.” So nice of them.
Second Amendment absolutism has gone to lethal extremes before, but what on God’s green Earth could justify stonewalling a simple attempt to do what eight in 10 Americans say must be done, and ban equipment that turns semiautomatics into automatics? Not even the NRA has the gall to say machine guns, severely regulated since 1934 and banned for new production and sale since 1986, ought to return.
Pay no attention to the Second Amendment behind that curtain! Listen to the rabble!
I too was galled when NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre said bump fire stock should join machine guns in permanent regulatory quarantine; a call from a gun rights group to make a simple piece of plastic firearms accessory– implicated in one crime — as unavailable to the average American as a politician genuinely committed to draining the proverbial Washington swamp.
The NRA’s decision to accept that machine guns are “beyond the pale” is a refutation of previous policy and a slap in the face of gun rights advocates who believe the 2A says what it says about ANY government infringement on American’s firearms freedom. Speaking of faces . . .
To the extent they’re not just hiding like cowards, legislators like House Speaker Paul Ryan claim, with a straight face, that a ban is properly the job of regulators in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — not of Congress.
Yup: Republicans who have made a professional sport out of howling about regulatory overreach now pretend to defer to federal bureaucrats.
As much as I hate to say it, nailed it.
You may be interested to learn that we have it on good authority that the NRA checked with the ATF before they called for the agency [formerly known as jack-booted thugs] to regulate bump fire stocks to death, making sure the Bureau would do no such thing.
Cunning plan, eh? Head fake towards the ATF to give cover to Republicans strangling the bump fire bill at birth. Cunning yes, but as I’ve pointed out before, a bilious brand betrayal. But hey, real politik is a bitch baby.
And as the whole bump fire misegos fades into the media mist, it looks like this pretend throw-the-bump-fire-ban-bill-under-the-ATF’s-MRAP strategy is working. For now . . .
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“You may be interested to learn that we have it on good authority that the NRA checked with the ATF before they called for the agency [formerly known as jack-booted thugs] to regulate bump fire stocks to death, making sure the Bureau would do no such thing.”
Gee, you don’t say? Wasn’t particularly hard to imagine the NRA had more going on with their statement than meets the eye. Didn’t stop impulsive, angry people from piling on here, though.
Cue the all caps, NRA are anti-gun crowd now…..
“What the Republican pols said is one thing. What they haven’t done is another.”
Hurray for that working in our favor for once. I kinda figured it would go this way once the hysteria died down. But, the real problem now comes in getting them to act on things like HPA or reciprocity.
Wait – where are these studies that show states with less restrictions on firearms have higher rates of gun deaths?
Well it’s sorta’ working out- so far. Even in Illinois(!). Are we done with bans? Of course not. But even the opinionated Stevie Wonder can see it’s political suicide for republitards and some dumbocrats to suppprt any gun control…
This happens after every incident. The news runs the story non-stop, there’s a few mentions of banning this or that by some politician up for re-election, and everybody’s crying on tv. Two weeks later it’s like it never happened, the lawsuits get thrown out, and we don’t hear anything until the next one. That’s just how the news is, they’re always looking for the next story.
Gotta stall and run out the news cycle. Plus you can always count on the Dems to over-reach and craft a bill so broad that Republicans can’t possible sign on to it.
Well what I get from this is that people stopped carrying about that Vegas shooting after all of 10 days after the fact.
Not surprising. Let’s not forget about Sandy Hook. After about a week people stopped really getting upset about it. Which is why New York had to violate the law by forcing an emergency vote on the S.A.F.E. treason. Which it is, given that the state of NY’s constitution requires at least 3 days to vote on a law, so the government just wrote an emergency order to hammer the vote in in less than a day.
“And as the whole bump fire misegos fades into the media mist, it looks like this pretend throw-the-bump-fire-ban-bill-under-the-ATF’s-MRAP strategy is working. For now . . .”
Exactly. The strategy apeased all the post-outrage clamoring by throwing the matter into the beaurocratic darkness.
“By the same token, if you escape someone who tries to hurt or kill you, you can’t grab your gun, return and open fire.”
Translation : A sleazeball thug comes up from behind you, does a ‘knockout game’ on you and drops you like a sack of wet cement and strolls away with his buddies laughing about it you cannot draw and open fire.
Just get a description of the attacker (if possible) and report it to the cops…
‘the studies that have found that states with the most-relaxed gun-control laws tend to have higher rates of gun deaths than states with tighter controls’ THIS IS A BLATANT AND OUTRIGHT LIE. Yes the tenth amendment does support states “rights” BUT states rights do NOT usurp the constitution, PERIOD.
The 10th Amendment (states rights) only applies to things not already enumerated in the constitution. The second amendment is already enumerated and it states “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be INFRINGED.” So all state gun control laws are unconstitutional.
And the NRA stall move to deflect to the ATF bought enough time for the knee jerk legislation to go nowhere. You all should thank the NRA for what it did.
ideal pistal carbine for the car is how i see it, i can already carry my 458 or 9mm or 5.56 in a carbine config.. so this just makes it easier. .. i like it and I’ll own one sooner than later..
This continues the NRA’s long streak of being unable to accomplish any of it’s stated legislative goals. Considering those include the secret no fly list gun ban support and trying to kill Texas OC, lucky us, huh?
I’ve heard that these are great guns. I would probably not be able to ever buy one as my finances are always limited. I’ve always had to settle for a second hand gun. I do love my hunting every year, and have managed to get my venison for the year.
Sam, for your health and safety, mind your own business. That “printer” may be a mugger in waiting. Stay alert, stay silent.
99.9% of the people out there wouldn’t recognize if someone was printing or not. Most people have their faces so buried in their smart(sic) phones they wouldn’t see it much less recognize what it was. I live in a Free state so it’s of no concern here.
Coming into this article I suspected and those suspicions proved true that this was going to be daffodil approach to someone coming at you with a gun. Run and Hide, make noise, wait for the police to show up faster than a speeding bullet!
My Great Grandmother handled a rifle quite well, Brace, aim, pull trigger. Great Great grandma knew how to load a musket.
Also, What about when its goose-stepping storm troopers? Swat bugs. Train your dog not to growl or these pussy storm troopers will shoot your dog too and they might have the wrong address! And also, what about the obvious effort to infringe on the 2nd amendment?
I hate guns. Is that a hate crime? No, right? I hate those who are attacking our constitution, is that a hate crime? The left will make that a hate crime.
I had to laugh at that double action target, I know exactly how that is. “BangBang (flinch) bang(flinch)bang(flinch)bang(flinch)”. Never again.
When you’re deer hunting, you should be striving for humane, precise shots placed in the vitals. Who are these jackasses mistakenly shooting human beings? You have a high powered rifle in your hands and there’s a supermarket not too far away full of meat. Please don’t shoot at everything that moves while you’re up in your stand. I have a couple issues with the 4 Rules of Gun Safety, but not with the one that says “Be sure of your target and what’s behind it.” If you can’t positively confirm you’re looking at a deer, don’t shoot. Hell, don’t even point your rifle at it.
I’ve taken my share of deer, with a nice 10-point buck in the mix. You don’t have to just blast away.
New look is good.
I understand the need for ads, but it would be nice if they were relevant and not the same “you won’t believe what celebrity died” clickbait.
The ads that take over the whole screen as you scroll down are very annoying.
Could this merely be a reflection of rural vs urban views on firearms? As previously mentioned by others it seems not within the scope of their business. Not only that but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that a lot of the properties they deal with actively discourage firearms ownership through one means or another.
I pretty much only read the site on my mobile device (iPhone), so the lack of forward/back buttons to move between articles is frustrating.
The scripting trickery that is “Load More” is very annoying. It’s better to have hard-linked “pages” of article listing.
I was used to the old look. I liked it just fine. The look, style and content had become “comfort food”.
In my browser – Firefox – the new look is rendering as grey text on white background. It’s a little less readable to my eye.
Very good review and very nice gun!