GOA to Trump: Bump Stock Regulations are “Radical Change”

By Tom Knighton

A lot of people aren’t happy about bump stock regulations. I’ll admit it, despite never having an interest in owning a bump stock, I’m one of them. I don’t like giving up ground, especially when it’s an end run around the legislative process like the bump stock ban.

I’m not alone on that either. It seems the Gun Owners of America have something to say on the matter, as well they should. From a press release sent yesterday:

Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA) sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him not to regulate bump stocks.

Tim Macy, chairman of GOA, writes, “These regulations are proposing a radical change — as they effectively define a gun as a machinegun even if the trigger resets for every round that is fired, so long as the finger only pulls the trigger once.”

Macy notes how these regulations can be used to ban popular semi-automatic firearms.

“So while bump stock devices will now be treated as machineguns under these regulations, these regs also threaten to do the same to AR-15s or other semi-automatic rifles, particularly in the next anti-gun administration,” Macy writes. “I don’t believe that [Trump wants] to ban every …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms