FTA: “The [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] scheme is fatally flawed,” Savage demonstrates. “The NPRM does not address several serious issues:
The change in policy asks for a willing suspension of disbelief of basic science and physics.
The change in policy will put ATF experts at risk of being impeached as expert witnesses.
The summary of the NPRM is filled with demonstrably false or misleading statements that are disputed by DOJ’s own experts at ATF.”
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- A comment posted Tuesday to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ proposed “Bump-Stock Type Device” rule shows the administration’s intended action sets up conditions for a wider ban on semiautomatic firearms. Filed by firearms designer, expert witness and Historic Arms, LLC President Len Savage, the response to the government’s mandated-by-law request for comments, is posted as four distinct “pdf” files.
Savage notes that so-called “bump stocks” owe their existence to the government ban on post-Hughes Amendment machineguns, and that “ALL semiautomatic firearms can be ‘bump fired’ regardless of any ‘bump-type-stock device’ installed or not.”
Who thinks the gun-grabbers won’t use that to further their goal of banning all such guns? And there’s another inconvenient truth that refutes their “commonsense gun safety” pretext.
“Put bluntly…devices make using the bump fire shooting technique safer for the shooter and those around the shooter,” Savage observes.
He also notes the Department of Justice specifically explained—in federal court — “why a bump-stock-type-device is NOT a machinegun: ‘Because of the manual, skill-based methods required to operate a bump-fire device…’”
by David Codrea
