Gotta get 'em all, before they get outlawed. Because you need a bump stock to … well, to utterly anhilate and liquefy deer, I guess.
The weird thing is, if they get banned, they become illegal. Unless they get grandfathered in, you won’t get to keep what you just bought.
It looks like they are very easy to make with legal easy to acquire parts.
Even if I wanted one, and in other circumstances I can imagine being a gun nut, I would find it embarrassing to ask for them so soon.
Well of course they did. We seem to live in the scumpit nation of the universe.
Hey now, they’re not just for deer. Maybe they’re planning on using them on humans too.
You’ll be happy to have a couple when the zombies rise up.
If a ban is implemented, (probably unlikely) those bump stocks in circulation will be grandfathered in. There is no record of who has them, and even if there were no ATF agents are going to bust into someones house to try to collect them. At best it may be made illegal to use them, and possibly made illegal to sell them, less helpful would be to make it illegal to manufacture them. But any ban is going to make the price (black market or otherwise) sky rocket, so some people may think its a good investment.
Ahh, that’s good. So the next guy who uses equipment like this for the purpose it is designed for (killing many humans as quickly as possible), will get a $50 fine tacked onto his sentence.
No.
Mythbusters proved conclusively that a standard rifle will score more zombie kills shots (has to be in the brain!) in a shorter period of time that a machine gun.
And you waste less ammo.
An axe is even better.
Id be willing to bet that a lot of these are being purchased by people that never knew they existed before this week.
I see the same thing happen all the time with “legal highs” -legal substances intended to mimic the effects of an illegal drug.
Someone will get some community outrage going over “People are buying a synthetic or legal herbal version of pot-coke-heroin-valium-whatever. It’s a very strong and powerful and dangerous substance and that gets people really really high. And you can buy it on Amazon! This must be stopped! We need to create awareness!”
At which point thousands of people that had never heard of this substance have their awareness increased and they go on Amazon and buy this stuff up as fast as they can and sales soar through the roof.
I think the same thing is happening here.
And to think I sold my Smith and Wesson stock when Trump was elected (or, more specifically, when Clinton wasn’t elected). I made a small profit then and the price has dropped - maybe it’s time to re-invest if Trump can make enough noise to make Americans think more gun regulations are coming.
Yes, I’ll invest in American paranoia and misery if it’ll make me a few bucks.
Axe gets you too close, though. I prefer a little more range from my zombies.
Shows what a bunch of dumb fucks that gun enthusiasts are. Just like with every mass shooting, ammo sales go up and gun stocks go up out of paranoia over new laws and regulations that never come. Now they rush to buy something that nobody needs because it has a prayer of passage.
It is most likely profiteering. The purchased items will go up for re-sale with incredibly high mark-ups online should it appear any legislative action is looking likely to pass and ban them. Both before the first AWB and in the wake of Sandy Hook, weapons and accessories that may be banned skyrocketed in price and there was no shortage of buyers. I suspect this is more of the same.
I’m a liberal gun owner by the way, including an AR-type rifle. Pre-AWB under Clinton, I owned a S&W Competition Match H-Bar that I bought at a gun show for around $650 new-in-box. When the AWB was gaining steam and looking likely to be passed, I took it to a gun show and sold it in cash within minutes for 2.5x what I paid for it. Post Sandy Hook, I was looking for a new AR in anticipation of some new legislation actually happening. I purchased a new AR for 2x it’s MSRP from an online site. Still haven’t fired that one either.
Yes, I’m conflicted on what I would do should any meaningful legislation pass that bans and requires turning in AR-platform rifles. I would not oppose such legislation but I cannot say for certain I’d just turn it in either. It may sit in a gun safe until such a time as either a.) the world comes to an end and I need it or b.) it’ll have to be dealt with by my estate after my death. I do fully support banning accessories like a bump-stock. There is not a compelling valid reason for these to be publicly available and banning them is not a violation of my 2nd amendment rights in my opinion.
Rifle axe.
I would guess that bump stocks skirt the 1st 2 issues having to do with “make it fire fully automatically” by saying that the weapon is still semi automatic, the appliance merely cycles the mechanism much faster than a human finger. It’s the only angle I can think of.
I gather “machine gun” and “fully automatic” are defined in terms of operation rather than performance, as it were. I can picture a fully-automatic rifle that fires repeatedly as long as the trigger is held, but is mechanically or electronically limited to release only one round per second. I suppose a redefinition is called for to address weapons that can fire more than, say, five rounds per second by whatever means, including the installation of after-market modifications or devices.