Only Criminals modify rifles into basically machine guns with special magazines and part modifications that can be bought online.
Also, Both Democrats and Republicans are buying guns like crazy because with Trump as president everyone is scared now. owning a gun at some point in the near or far future might be the difference between life and death for you and your family given how crazy life is under Trump.
Until we have a president in office who unites us all you likely are going to see gun sales only double and triple to be like what it was in the 1700s and 1800s once again. This is just looking at the writing on the wall everywhere. It's becoming the wild west out there once again unfortunately. And Trump's Stances on Guns will only amplify the sales of guns and amplify people who want to modify their guns to be assault weapons.
Under someone like Trump these sorts of incidents of hundreds of people being shot at once likely we will see again because of all the craziness of life under Trump.
I think making parts and selling them to turn your rifle into a machine gun should be illegal to make this recent type of event more rare.
That way maybe the only way someone could do this is to steal military weapons from an army base or something like that. This would greatly reduce people drugging out and doing something crazy like this or just having mental problems when no one is noticing.
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How killer turned rifle into a machine gun
Story highlights
- Bump-fire stocks are not illegal, ATF says
- The device was originally created to help people with disabilities use rifles
(CNN)The
gunman in the Las Vegas massacre may have rigged his guns with devices
that enable a shooter to fire bullets rapidly, mimicking automatic fire.
Twelve bump-fire
stocks were found on firearms recovered from Stephen Paddock's hotel
room, said Jill Snyder, the special agent in charge of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' San Francisco field office.
Also
known by the brand name Slide Fire, bump-fire stocks, or "bump stocks,"
modify such rifles as an AR-15 to "allow it to fire in rapid succession
or automatic fire," said Sam Rabadi, a retired ATF special agent.
A
bump-fire stock is seen on one of the weapons found in the hotel suite
from which Stephen Paddock rained bullets on concertgoers below. Photo
courtesy of WFTX.
How do they work?
The difference between semi-automatic weapons and automatic weapons is what happens when you pull the trigger.
On
semi-automatic weapons, the trigger must be pulled every time to fire a
round, after which the weapon reloads itself. On automatic weapons,
once the trigger is pulled and held, the weapon will continue firing
until the ammunition is expended or the trigger is released.
Bump-fire
stocks are attached to the receiver of the rifle. The stock uses the
recoil effect to bounce the rifle off the shooter's shoulder and "bump"
the trigger back into the trigger finger, thereby firing the weapon
repeatedly.
These devices can be purchased online or from a manufacturer, and prices can range from $50 to several hundred dollars each.
"You
really don't have to be a professional armorer to do it," said James
Gagliano, a retired FBI supervisory special agent and CNN law
enforcement analyst.
In 2010, Texas-based Slide Fire pitched the device to federal regulators as a new way to assist people with disabilities to "bump fire" an AR-15 type rifle.
"Individuals
that suffer from severe arthritis, partial paralysis, or other
conditions that affect their ability to traditionally operate a firearm
can now utilize the SSAR-15 and the muscular strength in their entire
arm to active the firing mechanism," the manufacturer said on its website.
Are they legal?
While automatic weapons are tightly regulated in the US, the use of bump-fire stocks in semi-automatic weapons is legal.
Bump-fire
stocks allow semi-automatic weapons to simulate automatic fire but "do
not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal
under current federal law," Snyder said.
But some believe bump-fire stocks, while legal, violate the spirit of gun restrictions.
"This
is something that works around and circumvents our laws," Gagliano told
CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "You're not mechanically modifying a
weapon, but you're putting an aftermarket product on that allows you to
lay down ... suppressive fire."
Could the law change?
The revelation that Paddock's weapons had such devices attached has caught the attention of some lawmakers.
"That
is just a huge loophole that allows you to convert a weapon into
something that is like an automatic gun," Rep. Dina Titus, a Nevada
Democrat, told CNN.
Titus is among several members of Congress who want to restrict bump-fire stocks.
Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, D-California, introduced legislation Wednesday that
would ban manufacturing or procession of accessories that accelerate a
semi-automatic rifle's rate of fire to that of an automatic weapon.
"Why can't we stop this?" Feinstein said. "Why can't we keep a weapon from becoming a military battlefield weapon?"
Twenty-six of her Democratic
colleagues are on board, but the measure has no formal Republican
support. Several senators said Wednesday they were unfamiliar with what
bump stocks are and needed to look into them before weighing in on the
legislation.
"We'll get hold of
some folks in the industry and find out what they do and we'll look at
Dianne's bill and make a decision in due time," said Sen. Jon Tester,
D-Montana.
Sen. Bob Corker,
R-Tennessee, said he couldn't respond to the legislation until his
staffers could show him how the devices work and "how that affects law."
The purchase of fully automatic weapons has been restricted in the US since the 1930s.
But bump-fire stocks didn't exist when the National Firearms Act was enacted in 1934 or when the law was amended in 1986 to prohibit the transfer or possession of machine guns by civilians.
"As
technology has come through in the last number of years I believe the
original authors of the act probably did not envision this kind of
accessory being used for modifications of this sort," Rabadi said.
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