Posted October 24, 2017 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

To say bump stocks are controversial is a bit of an understatement. Ever since Las Vegas, they’ve been a near constant focus of anti-gun politicians and are getting remarkably little backing by pro-gun forces. In fact, anti-bump stock legislation is likely to die not because of the banning of bump stocks, but because the language of the bill is so overly broad that it would ban any number of other things that do nothing to simulate bump fire.

Yet in California, the attorney general may have decided to skip all the rigamarole involved in new laws.

In response to an October 19th news release from California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, wherein he proclaimed gun parts like “bump stocks” to be illegal without any statutory authority, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) is firing back, calling his statements “disingenuous at best and probably illegal.”

Not only is Attorney General Becerra’s so-called ‘news release’ inaccurate and misleading,” said FPC President Brandon Combs, “it is almost certainly an illegal underground regulation.”

The State’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL), the agency which oversees the regulatory process, says on its Web site that if “a state agency issues, utilizes, enforces, or attempts to enforce a rule without following …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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