Posted March 26, 2018 10:58 am by Comments

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

Slide Fire SSAR-15 SBS Bump Fire Stock
Slide Fire SSAR-15 SBS Bump Fire Stock

U.S.A.-(Ammoland.com)- On Friday, March 23, 2018, Attorney General Sessions announced that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is set to publish proposed rulemaking to classify bump-stocks as machineguns. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) has not yet been published in the Federal Register, but it is available on DOJ’s website.

If adopted, the proposed rule will amend ATF’s regulations in 27 C.F.R. Part 479 to “clarify” ATF’s interpretations of the statutory terms “single function of the trigger,” “automatically,” and “machinegun” as follows:

  • “Single function of the trigger” will mean “single pull of the trigger.”
  • “Automatically” will mean “as the result of a self-acting or self-regulating mechanism that allows the firing of multiple rounds through a single pull of the trigger.”
  • The term “machinegun” will include a device that allows semiautomatic firearms to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm to which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter (commonly known as bump-stock-type devices.

This proposed rulemaking is in response to …Read the Rest

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