Trump says he’ll ‘write out’ bump stocks himself

By Christen Smith

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a discussion about school shootings with state governors from around the country at the White House in Washington, U.S. February 26, 2018. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
President Donald Trump reiterated this week his commitment to regulating bump stocks, even if Congress doesn’t share his feelings.
“I’m writing that out myself,” he told a group of state governors at the White House on Monday. “I don’t care if Congress does it or not, I’m writing it out myself.”
Trump’s comments come one week after he directed the Department of Justice to craft regulations for the firearm accessory known to increase the rate of fire, mimicking a fully automatic weapon. Bump stocks gained notoriety in October after a lone gunman mowed down 58 people and wounded more than 500 others on the Las Vegas strip with a dozen rifles modified with the devices.
“You put it into the machine gun category, which is what it is. It becomes essentially a machine gun,” Trump said. “It’s going to be very hard to get them.”
Questions linger about whether any bump stock regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will hold up in court, given the agency’s previous insistence the devices were beyond

Source: Guns.com