richiemobile
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Trump administration bans bump stocks on firearms
Oh no oh no the second amendment is in jeopardy.
I need bump stocks to hunt deer and pheasants!
NOT!
No doubt the NRA will appeal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-set-to-ban-bump-stock-firearm-devices-11545149435?mod=e2fb
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12/18/2018, 11:06 am
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Spikosauropod
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Re: Trump administration bans bump stocks on firearms
Bump stocks are not a legitimate accessory to a riffle, and the NRA has already come out against them.
God, this stuff gets old.
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12/18/2018, 11:25 am
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luciddream00
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Re: Trump administration bans bump stocks on firearms
Glad to see the White House move on this. Bump stocks have always been an obvious attempt to circumvent the restrictions on automatic weapons. A win for common sense gun laws.
--- Account closed permanently. I won't stand for abuse of authority by forum administration to censor criticism of a conservative radio host that celebrated the death of AIDS patients on his show. Maybe some day we'll speak again elsewhere.
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spud100
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Re: Trump administration bans bump stocks on firearms
Bump stocks or no, we need to arm up for the future that has been handed us. It is not the 21st century that I expected, but then, nobody asked me.
If I was an investor, I'd invest in survival food, water, communications, medicines, for the conflicts to come. Also, we'll have to go back to checks and cash, rather then be dependent on a banking system which can be shutdown, at the flick of a switch.
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greendocnowciv
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Re: Trump administration bans bump stocks on firearms
Various gun sellers, gunsmiths, and interested collectors will stockpile these, as prohibition = market opportunity = black market.
There is also the growing 3D printing market.
Not to mention, this occasionally reported, but mostly unreported issue - midsize to small scale illegal gun sales gangs that specialize all over the country in smuggling in guns from legal States to highly regulated states - mainly to feed gangs the guns they crave.
The smuggling gangs make good money, because too-high prices are OK with young gangsters who show off by nonchalantly overspending on things. They off course have the drug profits to pay the inflated prices common with black market goods.
This is a core part of the long running death march in the inner city - and has the pizzaz of drugs, guns and gangsters - why so little reporting? And why no regular news of the prosecutions of these gun smugglers? PC is one big reason.
PC has grown in both Parties for many decades. Repubs got dragged along with Dems at first. The Dems wanted to arrest as few Black criminals as possible. First a few, then more and more Repubs went along out of fear of being called racist unless they cooperated.
By the time Pres Trump came along, most in both Parties now buy into this "try to minimize Black arrests and prosecutions" idea.
That policy has kept that fairly easy to attack gun smuggling in business - those gangs are mixed Black and White, and most of the inner city Gangs buying the guns are Black.
So - do something else. If you dig into that - sure, you will cut down on the deaths of innocent bystanders, mostly in inner-city Black neighborhoods. You will also, though, have lots of dead black criminals and live, new black inmates in prison.
The dead black criminals will be portrayed in the press as stellar young academics who had great futures lined up,. The inmates are the slaves you want to cage, you racist bigot.
The bump stock law? As Spike notes, the NRA supports it. So the fuss is just a sideshow. Does anybody in power really want to fight gun deaths in the biggest gun death charnel-houses in the US - our inner cities?
I think many do, and more would if their was more public discussion of it beyond "this is a sign of a racist US."
If instead real questions were asked about specifically why no basic, professional law enforcement action has been made to address all this specific illegal gun selling and murder - repeatedly large numbers of Black murders - then we might see some pressure to do some obvious things such as I noted.
PC again! PC imbued teaching and reporting leaves the above ideas out of the mix of issues discussed when the matter is considered.
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