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The Center for American Progress reports
Before Stephen Paddock opened fire at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip last October, killing 58 and wounding hundreds, most Americans probably hadn't heard of bump-fire stocks--add-ons that lets a semiautomatic rifle fire as quickly as a machine gun. Until that mass shooting, they were a novelty known only among firing-range enthusiasts and Cool Gun YouTube.
Within months of Las Vegas, lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation[1] to outlaw the devices, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, or ATF, announced plans to ban them through regulation.[2]
But gun control advocates warn bump stocks are just one part of a much bigger problem. A flood of new gun technologies is pushing the envelope on what a civilian can legally own, skirting laws that have kept the most dangerous weapons off the street for decades.
[...] Weapons like machine guns, silencers, and short-barreled rifles and shotguns are regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934 and subsequent amendments. To own one of those weapons, a civilian has to go through a lengthy approval process and pay a special tax. The job of deciding whether a gun falls under NFA's restrictions falls to ATF.
Gun manufacturers have used the law's technicalities to create guns that are just as powerful, and deadly, as restricted weapons but without the added tax and strict regulations.
Take the SAINT, by Springfield Armory. It's an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine and a 7.5-inch barrel. That's shorter than the legal rifle length under federal law. But instead of a shoulder stock, the SAINT has a "stabilizing brace" or "forearm brace"--a device designed to attach to a shooter's forearm for one-handed firing rather than resting against their shoulder. By ATF's definition, the SAINT is a pistol, not a rifle, because it isn't meant to be fired from the shoulder. So anyone who can pass a federal background check can buy one online for $989.
[...] Stabilizing braces aren't the only new gun tech to skirt around the National Firearms Act. Franklin Armory's Binary Trigger System fires two rounds with every shot--one when the trigger is depressed and one when it's released, doubling the rate of fire. Like bump stocks and stabilizing braces, binary triggers aren't currently regulated under the National Firearms Act.
In one YouTube video, a man uses a binary trigger to fire a 30-round magazine in less than five seconds. In another, a binary trigger beats out a fully-automatic weapon.
[1] Bogus link in TFA. Fixed in TFS.
[2] Content is behind scripts.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday June 24 2018, @03:45PM (5 children)
To other Americans reading this: I'm making fun of this one particular guy because it's such an easy target, not y'all in general :-).
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:07PM (4 children)
Easy target. You might want to do a search of this site. Use my nick, and the terms "Georgia Ukraine Ossetia Crimea Russia". Yes, I'm aware that much of eastern Europe is in turmoil. And I'm also making fun of you Euros who distance yourself from your own neighbors. "Oh, but that's not Europe", or "Yes, but we live in the CIVILIZED portion of Europe!"
Again, I say stop cherry picking. The US and Europe are a reasonable comparison. The US has communities that has almost no violent crime. If you insist on cherry picking, I can do the same thing, and find statistics that make London look like a world class hellhole.
Next - you'll claim that there is no war in the US, like there is in Ukraine. And, I'll have to point to the statistics on our southern border. Declared or not, there is a war, right here.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/ [borderlandbeat.com]
Mainstream media won't give you any of that news. They don't notice when a bus is hijacked, then months later, all 50, 60, or even more passengers are found in a mass grave. Yes, we can legitimately compare our statistics to Eastern Europe, along with Western Europe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:33PM (3 children)
Ooooh, ok it makes more sense why you and some others around here sound so crazy. You believe there is a literal was r on the Mexican border. Wow.
When did economic migrants become soldiers again?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:38PM (1 child)
Click the link, and read. Lemme think a moment. The US lost about 40,000 people in Vietnam, over a period of about - uhhh - 15 years, I think. Mexico has lost more people in ten years, than the US lost in Vietnam.
If you read some of the stories at the link provided, you may choose to remain silent, and thought a fool, than to open your mouth to prove that you are a fool.
Yes, there is a war on our southern border. You may have heard references to a "war on drugs". If you step across our southern border, you will have entered the active battleground.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @06:11PM
Good to know how nuts you RWNJs are. Every country has problems with crime and smuggling, only the US has turned it into another wsrmachine profit mechanism. You brainwashed foo!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:08PM
And you should too. It is a war.