Alfred N Montestruc's avatar

Alfred N Montestruc

@anmontestruc.bsky.social

Bump stocks were in fact ruled as legal by the ATF for over a decade, then abruptly ruled illegal with no act of congress to justify it. The contrary claim is nonsense. The article wrongly claims “rate of fire” is related to being a machine gun. Just not true.

4 replies 0 reposts 3 likes


Dustin Du Cane's avatar Dustin Du Cane @dustinducane.bsky.social
[ View ]

The point is a judge shouldn’t be copying rhetoric. Jesus, that’s the point. Not who your goddamn Whatabout and special pleading.

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes


Dru Stevenson's avatar Dru Stevenson @drustevenson.bsky.social
[ View ]

In administrative law, agencies are not forever bound by what they decide in a private ruling letter, like the ones from years ago allowing a few individual manufacturers to make bump stocks. Those prior ruling letters did not have the force of law and were not regulations. 1/2

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Gorgon Zola's avatar Gorgon Zola @bobbryan2.bsky.social
[ View ]

The law outlawed machine guns or any hardware that would convert a semi to a gun that fired multiple rounds per trigger pull. I would actually say the atf policy was wrong before, not after

3 replies 0 reposts 8 likes