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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
And what would you think, had the Vegas shooter just used his belt loop or a rubber band instead of a manufactured bump fire stock? BF stocks make it easier to fire faster, but it's not a foolproof way to shoot at a FA rate. Again, I've taken friends to the range who could not make mine work at all for them. There is a technique to it and it takes practice. And the last real machine gun I shot had a rate of fire probably below what I could do on a SA rifle with just my unassisted index finger.
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Rick, everything you are saying it true, but I still want bumpstocks and any other devices that assist in increasing a persons ability to pull the trigger quickly banned. And confiscated.
Yeah, a motivated person can figure out how to make a gun full auto with little effort. Hell, cheap harbor freight cordless drill, a cam of some kind to depress the trigger with each rotation...done. But that's not the point.
I feel like there is a entire generation of kids (perhaps 2-3 generations) that no longer have the agrarian connection to guns that we hads. Their first introduction is playing Counter Strike on an Xbox. Their connection to guns is completely based military fantasies.
I don't want cheap, off the shelf devices available that reinforce the idea that they're little commandos.
We made machine guns (for the most part) illegal for a reason. I feel like spending political capital on bumpstocks bodes poorly for gun owners. It show a complete inability to self regulate as a group.