Public comment period opens on ATF’s bump stock ban

By Christen Smith

A proposed ATF rule would effectively ban bump stocks. (Photo: Slide Fire Solutions/Facebook)
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives opened the public comment period this week on a rule effectively banning bump stocks.
The agency published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register on Thursday, which would change the current definition of “machine gun” under the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968 to include bump stock-type devices.
The current definition under federal law, according to gun rights attorney Adam Kraut, is as follows: “Any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machine gun, and any combination of parts from which a machine gun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.”
The ATF rule would change the law to read: “For purposes of this definition, the term

Source: Guns.com