UPDATE: Via KOAA-TV Colorado Springs, Sen. Cory Gardner has a fat wad of nothing to say:
“I know there’s a tendency by some to immediately jump into the debate over gun control, but we have constitutional rights that we have to protect,” Sen. Gardner said. “I don’t believe that’s the right answer.”
Gardner said he wants to wait for more information surrounding the shooting to come out.
“Let’s get the facts, let’s find out exactly what happened, let’s have a discussion about this. But I don’t believe gun control is the solution. I don’t believe trampling on constitutional rights is the right answer.” Gardner said. “We have to make sure we’re protecting the rights of every American. Let’s have a discussion about what we can do to prevent this kind of thing from happening.”
Okie dokie then.
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Denver7’s Lance Hernandez:
Social media is lighting up with discussion about “bump stocks,” which are after-market accessories that make semi-automatic weapons fire faster.
There are calls to ban them, on Twitter, following revelations that the Las Vegas shooter used them in his deadly spree.
Senator Diane Feinstein, D-California, introduced a bill to do just that, saying her daughter had planned to attend the ill-fated concert in Las Vegas, but had a change in plans.
The Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports via Twitter that Colorado senior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet was quick to sign on to the effort:
INBOX: @SenBennetCO joins bill that would ban use of bump stocks found on guns used by Las Vegas shooter and can be used to accelerate rate of fire. #copolitics
— Mark K Matthews (@mkmatthews) October 5, 2017
Most of the world–outside the culture of gun enthusiasts in the know about all the various ways modern guns can be modified–only learned what a “bump stock” is in the aftermath of the Las Vegas massacre. The bump stock is designed to bypass the “biomechanical limit” of how fast in individual can pull the trigger on a semiautomatic weapon by allowing the weapon’s recoil to push the trigger into the shooter’s finger at a speed closer to the action of the weapon. The result is a weapon that doesn’t quite match the rate of fire of a fully automatic assault rifle, but those on the business end would have trouble telling the difference.
For example, the dozens killed and hundreds wounded in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
With all of that in mind, you might think that defenders of the “bump stock” would be hard to find right now–or at least biding their time for a better moment to make their case than while everyone is still in a state of relative shock over the worst mass shooting in American history.
But if you think that, you obviously don’t know Dudley Brown of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners!
Dudley Brown, the head of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, said Feinstein’s proposal won’t do anything to limit crime…
Brown told Denver7 that bump stocks are relatively uncommon.
“Many people call them a poor man’s machine gun,” he said. “It’s mostly for people who just want to go to a range and try to see what automatic fire sounds like.” [Pols emphasis]
“What automatic fire sounds like?” Sorry Dudley, but after last Sunday, everybody knows “what automatic fire sounds like.” Thousands of people who were at the Route 91 Harvest concert on Sunday night in Las Vegas will never be able to forget “what automatic fire sounds like.” And for 58 of them, it could have been the last thing they ever heard.
This isn’t the first time we’ve been left jaws agape by Brown and RMGO’s shocking indifference to the suffering caused by the products they are lavishly funded to endorse. No matter how “uncommon” bump stocks may be–which you’d like would make banning them less of a problem–their use in the Las Vegas shooting to multiply the casualties, creating a situation indistinguishable from machine guns in a war zone with legally obtainable products, is enough to merit getting rid of them. Right there. Case closed.
And if Dudley Brown doesn’t understand that, for the safety of the American public he needs to be ignored.
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Dudley Brown is a world class piece of shit.
Cory Gardner is proving to be no slouch, either . . .
Most of the world outside the culture of gun enthusiasts should also then be aware that bump firing is easily accomplished without the use of an aftermarket stock, as seen here by this dipshit. The full auto effect can be had hooking your finger into your belt loop. Note the links are bump fired sans any modification to an off the shelf rifle.
If bump stocks are so bad why did OBAMA'S ATF make them legal??
Why should children have to die in order to feed your sense of entitlement, Moldy?
You’re being your usual stupid self unusually early today, Fuffynutz?!? (Kleenex box have “a headache”?)
It’s not the ATF that makes anything legal or illegal (and, last anyone checked it doesn’t belong to any individual President, BTW) it’s the law; there’s no specific law yet making those illegal. The law is now being proposed to clearly make those illegal . . .
. . . now, please go back to fucking yourself.
N.R.A. Supports New Rules on ‘Bump Stock’ Devices
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/las-vegas-shooting.html
Oh, you've dragged yourself away from your talking points about Chris Holbert needing an apology long enough to blame Obama for bump stocks.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/05/politics/bump-stocks-regulation-atf-las-vegas/index.html
I grew up with guns, own guns presently, have a carry permit, support the 2nd Amendment and background checks on all gun purchasers.
Any device or product intended to enable a firearm to be operated in a manner similar to fully automatic firing should be illegal.
Also I never heard of a “bump stock” until publicised by the shooting.
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, in Colorado knows that every politician in Colorado is manipulated by Dudley Brown's organization when it comes to gun control or they would not be in office. Most everyone knows that gun control in Colorado is about padding Dudley Brown's pockets, not necessarily about gun rights (or wrongs) in itself.