re: Bump/Slide stocks are flying off the shelves

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We have to have some common sense.

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I have common sense, don't fricking kill people.

You're trying to regulate uncommon people. You can replicate fully automatic fire with a few simple pieces. Anyone can do it.

Not to mention, if you're firing into something the size of a crowd, you can burn through a mag in the same amount of time with no assistance.

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Hell, you could basically put together a law that affects anything that effectively creates a fully-automatic firing capability. We have to have some common sense.

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You can't ban knowledge or uninvent the gun. The information for making a wide variety of guns fully automatic, making bombs, making silencers, renting trucks, etc. is out there for those that seek it. "Bump firing" doesn't require a special stock. Firearms are regulated and murder is illegal. Anyone can buy a cheap benchtop mill for under 1K, make a plastic mold or 3d print a part. At thr bottom of your slipery slope is regulating the purchase of raw materials such as aluminum, steel and plastic. But even then, I'll just melt down coke cans.

ETA: I'd like to see some evidence that using a bump fire stock to increase the semi auto fire rate actually increased the carnage vs. semi auto fire at a lower rate. Coming from someone who actually owns machine guns, I would be willing to bet there would have been more casualties and less injury with more controlled fire.