re: Bump/Slide stocks are flying off the shelves

Let's for a second say that your statement is true and the use of a "safe" gun, like a bolt action .270, would have resulted in marginally fewer casualties. That would've been OK with you in the sense you wouldn't be here advocating common sense gun regulations? Would that have made you look at the situation as a person doing evil instead of trying to blame an inanimant object? Would that have instead made you ask the question whats wrong with the country that's driving this trend and what can we do to fix it? I'll give you a hint, it's not the guns. People have been able to legally own guns since their inception and machine guns since the late 1800s to present and mass shootings are a recent trend.

As for the question about the .270 bolt action, we'll never know because that's not how it happened. What I do know is that a .270 at 300yds would have a more devastating impact on a crowd of people than a 5.56 round because of it's superior ballistics and terminal ballistic characteristics. Add in controlled fire, better shot placement, the wide availability of magazine fed bolt actions such as the OB fave Tikka T3 and the fact that bolt action rifles were once the most fielded infantry rifle in the world and you could make a good case the damage could have been equal or more.

I hear your shtick, but what's your point; what's your endgame? Do you truly believe if bump fire stocks were banned it would have prevented this? PREVENTED. Would he have used another gun? Would he have used other means? Because if it still happens, people still lose their lives and it's the same amount of tragedy. The pro-gun anti-gunners are the worst of them. Your arguments are so contradictory they dont make sense. At least the anti-gunners are consistent because whether somone views guns as too dangerous for the public or not, it's mutually exclusive. You cant reasonably argue one gun is dangerous because it has the potential to kill X number of people but another gun is OK because it can only kill Y people.

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Not that it would matter in this case, as the shooter was hundreds of yards away and elevated, but most concerts tend to be labeled “gun free zones.”

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This. I'm pretty sure I read that this concert was a gun free zone.

Like fully automatic rifles (machine guns), I think these bump stocks and other devices that render a gun to have similar fully automatic capabilities, should be out lawed.

I was wrong. Fully automatic ownership is regulated
by ATF. Bump stocks get around this regulation. I wouldn't be surprised if more regulations are not forthcoming as a result of this massacre.

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Like fully automatic rifles (machine guns), I think these bump stocks and other devices that render a gun fully automatic should be out lawed.

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Bump stocks do not render a gun fully automatic and are not required to get the "bump fire" effect. You're clearly out of your league on the topic and speaking for a point of ignorance. But keep watching CNN, one day they might report something that's true.

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Right, and you're such a genius. My opinion is a rifle that cam be modified to fire more than about 2 rounds a second is no longer a sporting rifle and should be outlawed, as are fully automatic rifles.

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Since when is the 2A about sporting? If you didn't hunt when it was created, you didn't eat. It has nothing to do with hunting or sporting. It is for stopping people who want to do you harm including a tyrannical government.

Why the hell should your opinion matter. You are wrong.

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Jester

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My question is this, how many rounds can be shot out of an AR with a bump Stock before the barrel becomes so hot it is deformed or so hot it cooks one off in the chamber? I know after shooting a 30 round mag you cannot touch the barrel.