VCDL suggested action item -- Bump-stock ban proposal
Posted: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:15:00
Bump-stock ban proposal:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D= ... -0002-0001
Comments may be sent here:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=A ... -0002-0001
2 Suggested Comments (cut and paste one from here if you wish or submit your own words):
I fully oppose this ruling. The shooter's trigger finger is what activates the trigger, whether firing with a bump stock or with one's bare hands. No part of the bump stock touches the trigger, only the shooter's trigger finger. ATF's insistence otherwise is merely playing politics and hurts their credibility.
or ---
I fully oppose this ruling. If the bump stock made a semi-automatic rifle fully automatic, then holding the gun with only the trigger-finger hand while squeezing and holding the trigger should cause the gun to repeatedly fire shots. It doesn't do that and therefore the bump stock has clearly NOT converted a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun.
See Philip Van Cleave demonstrate a semi-auto with 1 finger -- no bump stock (if you wish to save this video just right click the image and select save):
https://vcdl.org/resources/Media/bumpfiredemo.MOV
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D= ... -0002-0001
Comments may be sent here:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=A ... -0002-0001
2 Suggested Comments (cut and paste one from here if you wish or submit your own words):
I fully oppose this ruling. The shooter's trigger finger is what activates the trigger, whether firing with a bump stock or with one's bare hands. No part of the bump stock touches the trigger, only the shooter's trigger finger. ATF's insistence otherwise is merely playing politics and hurts their credibility.
or ---
I fully oppose this ruling. If the bump stock made a semi-automatic rifle fully automatic, then holding the gun with only the trigger-finger hand while squeezing and holding the trigger should cause the gun to repeatedly fire shots. It doesn't do that and therefore the bump stock has clearly NOT converted a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun.
See Philip Van Cleave demonstrate a semi-auto with 1 finger -- no bump stock (if you wish to save this video just right click the image and select save):
https://vcdl.org/resources/Media/bumpfiredemo.MOV