Slipping on the Slope of Bump-Stocks & Mental Illness

By John Farnam

Opinion

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Bump-Stocks and Mental Illness

We’ve yet to see where all this is going, at least at the Federal level, but even Donald J Trump ( DJT ) currently thinks “Bump-Stocks” need to be banned, and NICS checks need to be “tightened,” particularly with regard to “mental illness,” however that illusive term might be defined.

As always, critical details are never talked about!

No legitimate Operator gives a damn about “Bump Stocks!” Their “kiddy-appeal” generated some retail sales, but they are silly, and nothing that has any serious application, nor that would interest me.

Yet, arguments in favor of their banning are completely false.

Bump-Stock-equipped rifles were found at the scene of the Las Vegas, NV shooting of 1 Oct 17, mixed in with at least a dozen other guns of various descriptions.

Up until this event Bump-Stocks had never been involved in any other crime, just this one event and I guess that alone “justifies” a federal ban, at least in our upside-down world.

No one is talking about exactly how Bump-Stocks currently in private hands are going to be rounded-up and apparently confiscated. Ugly details like that are “subject-non-Grata” with …Read the Rest

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