The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm, at the direction of President Trump, waived its regulatory magic wand and designated bump fire stocks as machine guns. That rendered hundreds of thousands of legally purchased firearm accessories illegal. The response: America’s gun owners seem to have raised a collective middle finger toward Washington. The nationwide ban […]
RW Arms took over Slide Fire Solutions’ inventory of bump fire stocks when the manufacturer closed down in the wake of the Las Vegas shooting. When the ATF waived its regulatory magic wand, instantly designating a warehouse full of stocks into machine guns, RW Arms’ inventory became worthless. Last month, just before the ban went […]
Every time we write about the ATF’s bump stock ban, plenty of commenters write that they can’t understand why anyone would want one. They opine that no one will miss them now that they’re officially verboten. That’s completely missing the issue at stake and why the ban is so dangerous. Bump stocks facilitate a fast […]
We’ve opposed the ATF’s bump stock ban since President Trump first floated the idea. Arbitrarily re-defining a plastic stock as a machine gun is a jaw-dropping case of regulatory over-reach and sets an extraordinarily dangerous precedent for future regulation of firearms and countless other aspects of everyday life. Even the Obama administration and Diane Feinstein recognized […]
The ATF’s bump stock ban went into effect yesterday. And as we noted, Texas retailer RW Arms had 60,000 Slide Fire bump fire stocks in their inventory. Wanting to avoid felony charges, they turned them in to the ATF for destruction. Here, courtesy Mrgunsngear’s Facebook page, is video of the nauseating process.
Michael Cargill owns Central Texas Gun Works here in Austin and hosts a local radio show focused on firearms, shooting and gun rights. He’s also appeared here from time to time. With today’s bump stock ban looming, Cargill took the incredibly dangerous firearm accessory he owns (owned) to the local ATF office yesterday and turned […]
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts turned away an emergency bid to block the BATF ban on so-called “bump stocks”. Obama-appointed Justice Sonia Satomayor has a second similar request. Nobody in America expects Satomayor to rule any differently in her case. Reuters has the story: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on […]
By Rachel Malone Last night I read the RW Arms press release describing how they will be turning in 60,000 bumpstocks to be shredded and recycled under the supervision of ATF agents in order to avoid a potential 10-year imprisonment and $250,000 fine per violation. I felt like I got sucker-punched. This is horrible. And […]
While some limited stays of the ATF’s bump stock ban have been issued by two Circuit Courts, as of tomorrow, bump stock possession becomes illegal. Hence this press release from RW Arms in Ft. Worth, Texas . . . Leading Retailer of Bump Stocks to Turn in Entire Inventory to ATF Fort Worth based retailer, […]
This is a follow-on to our earlier post regarding the Firearms Policy Foundation and the GOA. If you’ve been keeping score, three Circuit Courts have now ruled on requests for a delay in enforcement of the ATF’s reclassification of bump stocks as machine guns, which is due to start tomorrow. Both the Tenth Circuit and […]
We’ve reported in the last week that federal judges in both the Tenth and DC Circuits have issued temporary stays of the ATF’s bump stock ban which is due to take effect tomorrow. Those stays, however, only applied to the named plaintiffs in those two suits. Today, the DC Circuit expanded the universe of those […]
Thursday, a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the ATF’s new rule that re-classifies bump stocks as machine guns. That ruling only applies to the plaintiff who filed that suit. Today, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has done the same thing. Like the Tenth Circuit’s ruling, this one […]
