Lawmakers Seek To Close The ‘Bump Stock Loophole’ With New Bill

By Tom Knighton

Ever since the Las Vegas tragedy, bump stocks have been in the crosshairs. Bills in both the House and the Senate have been proposed to deal with bump stocks following their use to killing 58 people at a country music festival. Unfortunately, those bills are far too broad and would also ban trigger modifications.

Now, there’s a new bipartisan bill that seeks to close what some are calling the “bump stock loophole.”

Lawmakers introduced legislation this week that would add bump stocks and similar accessories to the National Firearms Act.

Known as the “Closing the Bump-Stock Loophole Act,” the bill would give the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) the power to regulate “a reciprocating stock, or any other device which is designed to accelerate substantially the rate of fire of a semiautomatic weapon” under the NFA.

In other words, purchasers of bump stocks would have to jump through all those annoying NFA hoops: registration, fingerprinting, background check, $200 tax stamp. Current owners of bump stocks would have one year from the bill’s enactment to do the same.

The “Closing the Bump-Stock Loophole Act” is the brainchild of Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), Congresswoman Dina Titus …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms