They’re Baaackkk: Slide Fire Relaunches

After a six-year hiatus, Slide Fire Solutions, the company that pioneered bump stock technology, has announced it is back in business following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the federal ban on bump stocks just a couple of months ago. The Texas-based, veteran-owned company was forced to shut down in 2018 when the government imposed … Read more

Mission Accomplished: Slide Fire Announces Shutdown

Slide Fire Solutions, the primary makers of bump fire stocks in the United States, has posted a notice on their site announcing plans to cease operations on May 20. The Texas-based manufacturer has been targeted by the media, politicians and gun control advocates since Stephen Paddock opened fire from the Mandalay Bay hotel on a … Read more

Question of the Day: Are You In the Market for a Bump Fire Stock or Binary Trigger?

If you’re like me — a scary thought on every level — all the kerfuffle over bump fire stock and binary triggers and such has whetted your appetite to buy one. Not because I/you need one. Not even because we particularly want one — especially as they eat through one’s ammo budget like a Schnauzer … Read more

Slide Fire Selling Limited Inventory Beginning 10:00 AM Central Today

As you’re no doubt well aware, Slide Fire ceased sales of its eponymous “bump fire” stocks after the shooting in Las Vegas. Not for any political reasons, mind you, but apparently because they were overwhelmed by the sales volume. Well, they’ve caught up and, according to the e-mail we received from them below, they’re resuming … Read more

Slide Fire to Resume Sales of Some Bump Fire Stocks Beginning Tomorrow

After the Mandaly Bay shooting, bump fire stock maker Slide Fire halted sales of their stocks in the face of increased customer demand. When our friend Diane Feinstein and others proposed banning the stocks, even before the bodies in Las Vegas had cooled, the company’s order volume no doubt spiked dramatically. Now it appears that … Read more

U.S. Representative Ted Deutch: Why The Feds Should Ban ‘High Capacity’ Magazines

“Combined with bump fire stocks, high-capacity magazines allowed the Las Vegas shooter to kill 58 concertgoers in a matter of minutes,” Democratic Florida Congressional Representative Ted Deutch writes at miamiherald.com. “But the massive scale of violence extends so much further. High-capacity magazines make killers capable of firing dozens of bullets before reloading. In the recordings captured … Read more

Vedder Holsters Daily Digest: Banning the Bump, Selling Like Hotcakes and a Crack in the Wall

It’s all they know . . . Another gun law? Just one more for madmen to ignore He made semi-automatics function like an automatic weapon by one of the methods — some legal, some not — depicted in YouTube videos. Do we really think we can stop the spread of knowledge — socially beneficial or … Read more

Stephen Paddock Had 12 Bump Fire Stock-Equipped Rifles in His Mandalay Bay Hotel Room

Photos were released yesterday of two rifles found on the floor of Stephen Paddock’s 32nd floor Mandalay Bay hotel room. One of which was equipped with a bump fire stock which simulates full-auto fire. Now the ATF has confirmed that among the 23 guns found in the room, a dozen of them had been fitted … Read more