How the NRA and the far-right are quietly mobilizing to kill gun safety reform after Vegas
On Sunday night, a gunman in Las Vegas killed 59 people and injured more than 500 others. When law enforcement searched the hotel room 64-year-old Stephen Paddock had been shooting from, they found 18 guns, several of which were semi-automatic weapons Paddock had modified with bump stocks.
Since then, bump stocks have been a hot topic in D.C., and in a rare move Thursday, the NRA came out in favor of regulating bump stock modifications.
However, the statement went on, saying, “The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
“Unfortunately, the first response [to the Las Vegas shooting] from some politicians has been to call for more gun control. Banning guns from law-abiding Americans will do nothing to prevent future attacks,” the statement read.
However, the statement went on, saying, “The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
A typical semi-automatic weapon fires at the rate of 45 to 60 rounds per minute, while the bump stock makes it possible to fire a semi-automatic weapon at the rate of an automatic weapon, between 600 and 800 rounds per minute. Fully automatic weapons have been illegal in the United States since 1986, though the transfer of automatic weapons made before the law was passed is still legal.
https://thinkprogress.org/bump-stock-resistance-nra-6c19a0a48a91/
The f*cking NRA ploy of now you see it, now you don't
I HATE THE NRA and there FUCKING LACKEY'S----------------FUCK YOU
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privately threaten/coerce legislators behind closed doors, maybe with implicit violence?
and then when he had on the doofus from Florida, I am so glad my remote was not in my hand.................
I / you / all of us have a "RIGHT" to live a prosperous life without fear from my neighbor, and a minority of those gun toting neighbors make me live in fear........what is wrong with this picture.............we are the majority on this issue..............
They can eat shit as far as I am concern......I HATE THE NRA, FUCK THEM
