Bump Stocks – l’Horreur!!!

 

This relates to bump stocks, so read this Pew Trust article on the subject as a reference, if you like.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2018/05/18/so-states-ban-bump-stocks-now-how-do-they-enforce-the-law

Bump stocks are anathema!! They are going to cause more and more slaughter!!! So let’s have a round of hysterics and a case of  the vapors while we’re on this subject.

– The money involved totals about $96.2 million overall in about 7 years, including taxes. That’s nothing to sneeze at.

– Purchase prices range from $180 to $452 per item. Likewise, this is nothing to sneeze at.

– If the bump stocks go, the sales taxes go with them, so there’s an economic loss no one thought about.

– There’s no compensation to people who decide to cave into a silly demand  Zero. Zip. Nada. Just leave it at the precinct desk or hand it over.

– As with weapons, there’s absolutely no guarantee that the po-po-pohlease will actually destroy it, so there should be a demand that the prior owner can watch while it’s chewed up in the wood chipper.

– There are no serial numbers on these things, so how could they be tracked in any way, period?

Let’s take a look at the practicalities of ownership, too.

– The cost of ammunition is not exactly comparable to bubblegum, is it? Rapid fire eats up more in one go than single shot fire, by a long shot.

– You’d have to keep it attached to the weapon anyway, because if your kids find it sitting by itself, they may use it for a lawn hockey puck or something for the dog to fetch, or your rugrat may think it’s a teething ring.

– Your bestie might decide it makes a really, really cute key fob or a hook to hang pots on in the kitchen.

– As has been noted in various videos, you can get the same effect with a heavy duty rubber band, which costs about $.01 each, which means that for about $1.50, you’re right back in business with rapid fire shooting even if the po-po make you hand the thing over.

– As has been noted by other people than moi-même, the only people who are really worried about it are politicians and others of their ilk, because they are all quite sure that you, an owner of weapons, “might” use it on them. (Paranoia and delusions come with the job, in my view.)  Considering the cost of ammo, I can’t think of a good reason to waste it on those parasites.

So maybe the real solution is to just not own one, but instead, go to your office supply store and get a big box of heavy duty rubber bands, buy cheaper ammo, and let ‘er fly. And then when the pohlease show up at your door looking for a bump stock (not that it’s likely to happen, they have real crimes to pursue), you can truthfully say “No such animal here, thanks for asking.” Kind of goes along with that terrible loss of some items falling overboard on your last hunting trip in a canoe.

Now, personally, I’d keep the crossbow and quarrels hanging over the fireplace in plain sight, along with the two-handed swords, the gladius, and the Viking sword, and my hunting bow and full quiver. They’d look at that and get puzzled, but with no guns anywhere and no bump stocks (which seem like a waste of cash to me) –  well, what can those poor fellas do? After all, if the ATF has determined that it has no authority to remove bump stocks from the possession of the owners, then it’s the state’s cost, not the taxpayers’.

Frankly, I doubt this is anything but another crackpot scheme to garner votes. Let’s recall that Ms. Haspel was approved for her CIA position on a 54-45 vote. That is a shift by itself. There are likely more to come. Stay alert.

There will continue to be more screeching by the media and the self-terrorized. I think they get some kind of adrenaline rush out of the self-inspired terror, some sort of peculiar mind-orgasm with the rush that follows and gives them a giddy high.

It does not help that the Florida county school shooter’s videos have been posted on the internet by the vultures in the media. Nor does it help that the noisy rampages of the media contribute to the next idiot who is hell-bent on collecting his 15 minutes of Warhol fame. There is a definite connection there. The lack of reality in blaming an inanimate part for a weapon that can’t perform without human interference is part of the neurosis involved in this nonsense, and that is slowly evolving into some sort of psycho freakout at even the mention of GUNNZZZ.

A crossbow with a bumpstock??? Okay!! (Thanks, Big Guy!)

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