“BUMP FIRE” STOCK BAN PROPOSED. SUBMIT COMMENTS OBJECTING TO IT.

To comment on the proposed regulation which will have the effect of making all “bump fire” stocks and similar devices illegal and the current owner’s felons unless they destroy or surrender these devices go to: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ATF-2018-0002-0001

“BUMP FIRE” STOCK BAN PROPOSED. THIS WILL ENDANGER ALL SEMI- AUTOMATIC RIFLES.

SUBMIT COMMENTS OBJECTING TO IT.

To comment on the proposed regulation which will have the effect of making all “bump fire” stocks and similar devices illegal and the current owner’s felons unless they destroy or surrender these devices go to: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ATF-2018-0002-0001

COMMENTS ARE DUE BY JUNE 27, 2018.

You must use you real name and address. You also MUST make sure you fill in the ID or the proposal which is: ATF-2018-0002-0001. You MUST make sure that you fill in or include the agency that is proposing the rule: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

There are other methods of commenting besides online. These are:

You may submit comments, identified by docket number ATF 2017R-22, by any of the following methods:

Fax: (202) 648-9741.

Mail: Vivian Chu, Mailstop 6N-518, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Enforcement Programs and Services, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, 99 New York Ave. NE, Washington DC 20226. ATTN: 2017R-22.

All submissions received must include the agency name and docket number for this notice of proposed rulemaking. All properly completed comments received will be posted without change to the Federal eRulemaking portal, http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.

Dates

Written comments must be postmarked, and electronic comments must be submitted on or before June 27, 2018. Commenters should be aware that the electronic Federal Docket Management System will not accept comments after midnight Eastern Daylight Time on the last day of the comment period.

It is better not to submit a “form letter” as the ATF must respond to unique objections to this proposed ban. This means that if 10,000 people simply comments: “The 2nd Amendment says: …shall not be infringed” BATF will submit one response for all 10,00 objections.

Areas to comment on could include issues such as:

1. It has never been proven that any rifle, equipped with a “bump fire “stock has ever been used in a crime. The Las Vegas shooting in October 2017 remains under investigation of some sort and has law enforcement not been forthcoming about the shooter and how that crime was really committed.
2. The proposed regulation is attempting to grossly pervert the definition of “automatic” which has been in effect since 1934.
3. The ATF is attempting to create substantive law and thus is unconstitutionally invading the province of the United States Congress. In effect, the BATF proposes to, by rulemaking, impose criminal sanctions, when Congress has not acted.
4. Even if it is proven that the Las Vegas shooter did use a rifle with a “bump fire” stock, there are tens of thousands of these devices being used by law abiding gun owners’. The companies that make these stocks employ thousands of American workers.
5. The BATF does not have the authority to regulate firearm parts and accessories as they are not covered by the National Firearms Act of 1934 or any other Act. of Congress.
6. The BATF has published written, expert opinions, detailing the operation of a “bump fire” stock and why they are legal. Changing the regulations is an illegal and unconstitutional attempt to circumvent their own official position.
7. Adoption of these proposed regulations will open the possibility of the BATF regulating every firearm accessory and this regulation will affect more than just “bump fire” stocks.
8. The proposed regulation, if passed, would amount to an “ex post facto” law which is prohibited by Article I, Section 9 of The United States Constitution” in that current owners of rifles with such stocks would become criminals when this regulation goes into effect.
9. The proposed regulation violates Amendment V of The Constitution of the United States because it takes away property of persons “without due process of law” and without compensating the owners.
10. Regulation will not accomplish the intended purpose as a shooter with a good trigger and trained in a rifle’s use, can fire as fast as this device and more accurately.