Bump Stock Bans Threaten All Semiautomatic Firearms

By JP Pichardo

Bump stocks are attachments for a semiautomatic firearm and do not convert the firearm into a machinegun. Understanding why a bump stock is not a machinegun is key to understanding the threat posed by bump stock bans. If a bump stock is redefined to be considered a machinegun, then ALL SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARMS will also be regulatable as machineguns. Conservatives must understand that this is a bonus for the gun control lobby—not a mistake.
Machinegun—The term ‘machinegun’ means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
Bump Stock—A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.’ With or without a bump stock, a shooter must release and reset the trigger between every shot. And, any subsequent shot fired after the trigger has been released and reset is the result of a separate and distinct ‘function of the trigger.’ All that a bump stock does is accelerate the rate of fire by causing these distinct ‘function[s]’ of the trigger to occur in rapid succession.
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Source: Gun Owners of America