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Title: The bump stock ban is just days away. What will owners do?
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AP/Yahoo
URL Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bump-sto ... ays-away-owners-170502765.html
Published: Mar 21, 2019
Author: LISA MARIE PANE,Associated Press
Post Date: 2019-03-21 22:25:27 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 1696
Comments: 31
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — David Lunsford is an avid gun owner with a firing range on his Texas spread. With bump stocks about to be banned by the U.S. government, he grudgingly decided to sell off his and let someone else figure out what to do with them. "If I get caught with one, I'm a felon, and it seems like to me that's entrapment in the biggest way. I bought that thing legally with my hard-earned money," said the 60-year-old Lunsford, who has at one time owned six AR-15 rifles that he built from kits, as well as a World War II German submachine gun. The bump stock — the attachment used by the killer during the 2017 Las Vegas massacre to make his weapons fire rapidly like machine guns — will become illegal on Tuesday in the only major gun restriction imposed by the federal government in the past few years, a period that has seen massacres in places like Las Vegas; Thousand Oaks, California; Sutherland Springs, Texas; and Orlando and Parkland, Florida. Unlike with the decade-long assault weapons ban, the government isn't allowing existing owners to keep their bump stocks. They must be destroyed or turned over to authorities. And the government isn't offering any compensation for the devices, which can cost hundreds of dollars. Violators can face up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. Lunsford bought three bump stocks over the years and wanted to recoup at least some of the money he shelled out, but it bothers him that he and others have been put in this position. "I've never committed a crime with it, and just because of that one killer up in Las Vegas that used one that killed a bunch of people, they're going to make people pay for it," he said. But Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, said: "It was because of bump stocks that the gunman in Las Vegas was able to kill 58 people from a hotel window. ... It just goes to show the incredible lethality and dangers of these accessories." Poster Comment: so many things wrong in this article...
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#5. To: Dakmar (#0)
While *I* consider bump stocks to be THE perfect fashion accessory for closet commandos and wouldn't have one if you gave it to me,there is no way in hell the government can take away your personal property without paying you for it. But Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, said: "It was because of bump stocks that the gunman in Las Vegas was able to kill 58 people from a hotel window. ... It just goes to show the incredible lethality and dangers of these accessories." Given that the bozo had a clear field of fire on literally hundreds of people packed tightly enough to have been sardines in a can and he ONLY killed 58 people shows you how useless they are. Truth to tell,the government should be encouraging nutcases to buy them in order to save lives.
gee wiz pete is not a telescopic sight THE perfect fashion accessory for closet snipers? next you know pete they will outlaw playing cards coming in contact with your bike spokes, how will you get around then?
gee wiz pete is not a telescopic sight THE perfect fashion accessory for closet snipers?
#25. To: hondo68 (#21)
same guy/gal with a million LEDs on their stereo?
Ahhhh,THE perfect fashion accessory for the fully-equipped closet commando! More bells and whistles than a marching band. Thank you for posting it.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestUnlike with the decade-long assault weapons ban, the government isn't allowing existing owners to keep their bump stocks. They must be destroyed or turned over to authorities. And the government isn't offering any compensation for the devices, which can cost hundreds of dollars. Violators can face up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.
#18. To: sneakypete (#5)
While *I* consider bump stocks to be While *I* consider bump stocks to be THE perfect fashion accessory for closet commandos and wouldn't have one if you gave it to me,
#21. To: IRTorqued (#18)
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