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Face 10 Years in Prison if You Don’t Surrender Your Bump Stock in 90 Days

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The government is banning bump stocks. There is no grandfather clause. This is as bad as confiscation, folks. 

When Wayne LaPierre said on CBS’s Face the Nation that the ATF needed to “do its job” with respect to bump stocks, one wonders if he was asking the agency to turn thousands of law-abiding gun owners into outlaws. Because that, my friends, is exactly what is happening.

If you currently own a reciprocating stock you will soon be in possession of a machine gun. Unlawful possession of a machine gun is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to the DOJ.

This is not a joke. Attorney General Jeff Sessions published a Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) last week. (I’ve embedded it below.)  If made final, possessors of “bump-stock-type devices would be required to surrender, destroy, or otherwise render the devices permanently inoperable.”

To be abundantly clear, there is no grandfather clause in the NPRM.  In other words, this is confiscation on a national scale, folks.

“Since the day he took office, President Trump has had no higher priority than the safety of each and every American,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a statement.

“That is why today the Department of Justice is publishing for public comment a proposed rulemaking that would define ‘machinegun’ to include bump stock-type devices under federal law—effectively banning them,” he added.

Even for those of you who said, over and over: Who cares about bump stocks! They break if not the letter of the law then certainly the spirit of the law. They should be banned! Even you should take offense to this NPRM.

At the very least there should be a grandfather clause for bump stock owners. You have to acknowledge that.  Because criminalizing the possession of lawfully purchased firearms and accessories is infringement. It is unconstitutional. Period.

Plus, how do you not bristle at the way this whole saga unfolded?!  NRA called for “additional regulations” back in October. Trump wasted no time and kicked the movement to ban these devices into high gear. There was no pause to consider the ramifications of the policy change. Even more frightening, Trump seemed enthusiastic about getting it done.

“By the way, bump stocks, we’re writing that out. I’m writing that out myself,” said president Trump in February.  “I don’t care if Congress does it or not. I’m writing it out myself, OK.”

And we accused Obama of ruling by executive fiat.

What’s worse is that this NPRM became a reality despite two prior determinations from the ATF saying a bump stock was a “firearm part” and not a “machinegun”; an open letter from the agency’s association admitting that ATF didn’t have the authority to ban the device, only Congress had the power to; and overwhelming public opposition.  Remember, when ATF requested public comment on the ban, 85 percent of the more than 32,000 submissions were anti-regulation.

Yet none of that mattered.  You know, when many of us screamed that this isn’t just about bump stocks, this is what we meant.  It’s about much more: the NRA belying its core mission to protect 2A rights, Trump breaking his promise to gun owners (“I’ll never let you down”), a rule turning law-abiding citizens into criminals, a regulatory agency acting as a legislative body to satisfy a political agenda.  Fundamentally, it’s about betrayal.

Some of my friends in the gun community already believe the war is lost. That it’s only a matter of time before our 2A rights are a thing of the past. Looking what has happened under GOP leadership, with a so-called gun-friendly president — at the beckoning of the nation’s preeminent gun rights group, no less — I’m having a hard time disagreeing with that assessment.

Once the NPRM is officially published by the Federal Register, there will be a 90-day comment period.  Please take the time to speak up.   Let them know that this overreach is unacceptable.  Even if you support a ban on bump stock devices, this isn’t the way to get it done.  It should have to come from Congress.  Not Trump, not Wayne LaPierre, not from the pencil pushers at the ATF.

GUN REGS:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1agHVYBAw5FLmOB0oH592Wvbl6L4yyLr8/view

 



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    • Anonymous

      They are gong to need a lot more prisons.

    • Pink Slime

      This is in VIOLATION of the 2nd Amendment. Your Constitution is the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. Not Donald Trump, not the useless NRA, not the traitorous Congogress, not the Supine Court.

      So, what do you have to worry about? Are you threatening to obey them??? :lol:

      • 2QIK4U

        What do you do when Trump’s saying one thing but the law another?

        • Pink Slime

          Again, the Constitution is the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. If your elected officials (we don’t have leaders) don’t obey it, impeach, expel, recall, or REMOVE them…. as first resort. :cool:

    • 2QIK4U

      They seem very easy to fabricate. If you’re registered hand it in and make your own.

    • raburgeson

      There are people out in the country that haven’t even heard about this.

    • beLIEve

      DICK ACT of 1902 . . . CAN’T BE REPEALED (GUN CONTROL FORBIDDEN) THE TRUMP CARD ENACTED BY CONGRESS FURTHER ASSERTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT AS UNTOUCHABLE

      NOVEMBER 29, 2016

      The Dick Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 INVALIDATES ALL so-called GUN CONTROL LAWS. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities.

      The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. :idea: All members of the UNORGANIZED MILITIA HAVE THE ABSOLUTE PERSONAL RIGHT and 2nd Amendment right TO KEEP and BEAR ARMS OF ANY TYPE, AND AS MANY AS THEY CAN AFFORD TO BUY. :idea:

      The DICK ACT of 1902 CANNOT BE REPEALED; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The President of the United States has zero authority without violating the Constitution to call the National Guard to serve outside of their State borders.

      http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/us_constitution/gun_control/news.php?q=1237163642

    • kletus_ledbetter

      Face 10 Years in Prison if You Don’t BURY Your Bump Stock in 90 Days

    • Ideas Time

      All laws repugnant to the constitution are Null and Void and these are not even laws but corporate statutes.

      Every act of every government officer, state or federal, must be authorized by at least one provision of the Constitution; see Finley v. United States, 490 U.S. 545, 109 S.Ct. 2003, 104 L.Ed.2d 593 (1989); Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Co., 486 U.S. 800, 818, 108 S.Ct. 2166, 2179, 100 L.Ed.2d 811 (1988); Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord, 449 U.S. 368, 379-380, 101 S.Ct. 669, 676-677, 66 L.Ed.2d 571 (1981); Kline v. Burke Construction Co., 260 U.S. 226, 233-234, 43 S.Ct. 79, 82-83, 67 L.Ed. 226 (1922); Case of th [sic] Sewing Machine Companies, 18 Wall. 553, 577-578, 586-587, 21 L.Ed. 914 (1874); Sheldon v. Sill, 8 How. 441, 449, 12 L.Ed. 1147 (1850); Cary v. Curtis, 3 How. 236, 245, 11 L.Ed. 576 (1845); McIntire v. Wood, 7 Cranch 504, 506, 3 L.Ed. 420 (1813).

    • Anonymous

      And why are ‘machine guns’ banned? OH, that’s because the GOVERNMENT always want to have MORE FIREPOWER than the deplorables – just in case the deplorables decide to revolt – just in case……. Get the picture? You already lost your 2nd Amendment rights – you need PERMISSION to access a gun, especially ones the bureaucrats want for themselves.

    • LADYBRADY

      I wish them luck with that.. They just pass what they want.. they don’t care about following our Constitution..

      Why do “laws” work? Because WE choose to abide by them.

      I NO LONGER CHOOSE to follow unconstitutional laws!

      The 2nd does not have except clauses (neither does the FIRST)!

      Tough cookies deep state.. come and get them.. Good Luck with that.. I’m sick of this corrupt, RICO Government. That’s what it is.. a Criminal RICO Cabal.. pervasive throughout this government.

    • Hi NSA, kiss my artichoke

      NRA = Controlled opposition.
      They COMPROMISE on the Second, instead of saying NO and fighting tooth and nail. :mad:

    • Rad

      They wouldn’t be pushing this as hard as they are if they didn’t have planned tyranny on the schedule. It’s a guarantee that something requiring a disarmed population is right around the corner.

    • Rad

      Who says it’s law? Your right to defend yourself and your loved ones anyway, anywhere and anytime is an unalienable right. Go see Ideas comment below.

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