| CosmicSex said: So as it turns out, the man had a legal rifle with a bump stock modification. So, seeing what happened here, it is at least logical to make bump stocks illegal. Why? One, they aren't necessary for day to day hunting or home protection. Two, in the wrong hands they turn crazy people from murders into killing machines. If we can't come up with a legit background system to protect us from people with real issues, we can at least stop them from killing us all. I think we can all agree on that. Also, selling illegal auto weapons should be vigiously procecuted. Thats just common sense. If people can buy autos, thats a problem. Lets solve it. |
That is a tricky thing to do though.
So it was a legal gun, with a legal modification on it.
I see lots of things used for illegal purposes that are sold legally in the open. Such as marijuana pipes in places where it is not legal. They sell them as for use with cigarettes, even though everyone knows that 99% of the time they are used for marijuana. Or how abou the whole piracy of video games. Someone says they are using a legal emulator, or legally hacking their OWN system to do what they want on the system. They are not doing anything illegal until they use it to play pirated games.
Same with this bump stock. I don't see how it is illegal until it is added to a gun making that gun now a fully automatic gun, something illegal. Before that though, it is not illegal. It's tough to ban parts to a whole.
