Gun Owners of America: Bump stock ban ‘a slippery slope’

By Christen Smith

Slide Fire Solutions SSAR-15 MOD bump stock. (Photo: Slide Fire Solutions/Facebook)
Gun Owners of America warned the president this week his proposed bump stock ban will endanger gun rights under future administrations.
The advocacy group drafted a letter Wednesday to President Donald Trump, urging him to squash the ban before it turns into a “slippery slope” of regulations against semiautomatic firearms.
“Mr. President, if your administration arbitrarily classifies bump fire stocks as machineguns, consistency would require classifying every pair of Levi’s jeans as machineguns — on the theory that they have belt loops which can be used to enable bump firing,” said GOA Chairman Tim Macy in the letter. “Indeed, ATF would also be required to classify human beings themselves as machineguns, since some shooters are able to bump fire their semiautomatic firearms using nothing more complicated than their trigger finger.”
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives opened the public comment period last month on a proposal to redefine bump stocks as machine guns — two months after Trump publicly pressured the Department of Justice to do so or else “he’d write them out” himself. The accessory, which mimics automatic gun fire, gained notoriety in October after a lone gunman mowed down 58 people and injured

Source: Guns.com