FLASHBACK: Obama Administration Signed Off On The Use of Bump Stocks in 2010

Difference without a distinction.

 

We are using the term "approved" as in "allowed to be sold without any special conditions."

 

No there is a distinct difference between not being able to stop the sale of bump stocks and being able to stop the sale of bump stocks.

As a matter of fact it is probably as clear of a distinction as you will ever find in life.

 

Under what law was/is the ATF allowed to regulate bump stocks?

 

Apparently,they decided they had no jurisdiction to regulate it because of how they chose to characterize the item. I haven't researched the details but your interpretation seems reasonable. We are just using language a little more loosely. They could have interpreted the device as a modification that allowed full auto fire and then they would have had jurisdiction, at least as I understand it.

 

The ATF made the WRONG judgment. A gun part that changes a semi auto to almost a fully automatic rifle is their jurisdiction. That is IS the point. BTW, this was the same ATF that thought it was in their jurisdiction to allow illegal arm sales to drug cartels.

 

Thank you for clearing that up. I now see where you were going with your argument.

 

It could have just as easily determined that it had jurisdiction.

 

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You mean like DACA.