Seriously, everyone could have ignored the issues and let it stand because society is better for it. But there are legitimate actors who believe it is their right to own these and they need them for their defense.
Gun nuts are some of the most obnoxiously entitled people on the planet. In large part because they define themselves by how much money they have given gun companies and feel like they have a constitutional amendment specifically for them. Any time something is taken away from them they cry harder than a toddler who was told they can’t have chicken nuggets for dinner.
As for bump stocks specifically? A lot of the smaller gun companies were pushing for similar “loophole” devices and, thus, have been focusing a lot of sponsor money on gun youtubers to talk about how they aren’t covered by the assault weapon ban because it is very specifically about “multiple rounds from a single pull of the trigger”. So now they are “technically correct” on top of it.
It’s so weird …they want a gun “for self defense” but it firing once per second is not enough.
So the goal shifts to something that fires 3x per second … “now that is stopping power”.
But it does not stop firmly enough, need to find a way to fire that same small gun 9x or 27x per second, now that is self defense!
If someone invents a two handed minigun that goes 100rps and is not unweildy I bet some of the gun nuts will want it legalized to use as domestic weapon for self defense.
Because hey, hitting someone with 100 bullets might stop them, right?
The gun lobbyists who fought to ensure the poison pill law was overly specific in the first place.
Seriously, everyone could have ignored the issues and let it stand because society is better for it. But there are legitimate actors who believe it is their right to own these and they need them for their defense.
Gun nuts are some of the most obnoxiously entitled people on the planet. In large part because they define themselves by how much money they have given gun companies and feel like they have a constitutional amendment specifically for them. Any time something is taken away from them they cry harder than a toddler who was told they can’t have chicken nuggets for dinner.
As for bump stocks specifically? A lot of the smaller gun companies were pushing for similar “loophole” devices and, thus, have been focusing a lot of sponsor money on gun youtubers to talk about how they aren’t covered by the assault weapon ban because it is very specifically about “multiple rounds from a single pull of the trigger”. So now they are “technically correct” on top of it.
It’s so weird …they want a gun “for self defense” but it firing once per second is not enough. So the goal shifts to something that fires 3x per second … “now that is stopping power”. But it does not stop firmly enough, need to find a way to fire that same small gun 9x or 27x per second, now that is self defense!
If someone invents a two handed minigun that goes 100rps and is not unweildy I bet some of the gun nuts will want it legalized to use as domestic weapon for self defense. Because hey, hitting someone with 100 bullets might stop them, right?
The law was written by gun controllers some 90 years ago.