Still hand Bill

It does pose the interesting problem of what to do with exiting units if made illegal by congress. One good outcome would be to open the registry and add bump stocks and other devices (forced reset triggers and binary triggers) as machine guns. There are only about 400k transferable machine guns. Increasing that number would be great and hopefully drive down prices. Also once it’s a machine gun, you could just convert to a full autosear. No need to keep it as a bump stock if it’s a nfa machine gun.

Unfortunately I don’t agree on the rule for sales. I believe the statute is not as clear as the machine gun definition and may allow the atf to write the rule. I think there is still a chance the sale rule will get thrown out, I am not sure this case will help. The biggest argument against the new sale rule is that it has no clear metrics for what constitutes engaged in the business. That is problematic as the potential criminal has no idea they are breaking the rule until they get charged. Ie leniency is going to the prosecutor not the accused.

I don’t oppose background checks, I oppose having a record of every transaction so that a database of who owns what is created. Unfortunately they both go together with todays 4473. No question that’s why your name and gun information are on the same page of the 4473 now. Much easier to scan and record the data.

Yes a good thing. I agree that actual bump stocks are sort of silly, but the ruling says the atf can not interpret a law differently than it’s written. The whole case was about atf reinterpretation of the law and banning things that met the letter of the law. The dissent was basically the laws intent was to ban rapid fire, thus the reinterpretation is ok. Problem was the law said nothing about rate of fire. It simply says a machine gun will automatically fire more than one shot with each function of the trigger. A bump stock does not do this. congress can easily make a law to ban bump stocks and that I believe would be legal. This ruling clarifies that the president can not have agencies make new rules/interpretations when they can’t get the law passed.

I remember reading about someone who built a 50 bmg pistol. The photos showed some pretty impressive fireballs.

While people may be unhappy and there is a huge political divide, most are happy enough to not give up what they have. People will need to be a lot more unhappy to get a full scale war going.