Rant of the Week: Bump Stocks Are Just Another Cut

By David Lombardo

I’ve been saying for a long time that any attempt at trying to disarm John Q. Public would be met with disastrous results, but what if it’s really death by a thousand cuts? A thousand small cuts that one segment or another of the pro-Second Amendment group figures isn’t really a big deal. Case in point – bump stocks.

I don’t own a bump stock and, to be candid, they really don’t interest me – but that’s not the point. It is a legal, firearm-related accessory that has been targeted by the anti-Second Amendment cabal for no good reason. These anti-gunners use the Las Vegas shooting, which left 58 people dead and over 850 more injured, to justify their crusade against the device; the shooter systematically brought 23 firearms into his hotel room, including some with bump stocks. But what they conveniently leave out is that no law, even a ban on bump stocks, would’ve prevented this tragedy.

Regardless, as a result of the shooting, about 15 states are considering a ban on bump stocks, and some have already done so. It’s one of those “turn ‘em all in” deals which makes it an expensive, unfunded mandate. For example, Massachusetts’ law-abiding citizens …Read the Rest

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