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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts) Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:08 AM Oct 2017

Three Weeks After Las Vegas, Legislation to Ban Bump Stocks Has Stalled Out in Congress

Three Weeks After Las Vegas, Legislation to Ban Bump Stocks Has Stalled Out in Congress
An effort to ban bump stocks is effectively dead, aides and advocates say. And the NRA isn’t the lone suspect.
Sam Stein 10.23.17 9:00 PM ET

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, efforts to pass even scaled-down gun-control legislation have effectively stalled on Capitol Hill.

Congressional aides and issue advocates say they see no viable path for passing even the most promising bill: an effort to ban the manufacturing and sale of bump stocks, which were used by the Las Vegas shooter to essentially turn his semi-automatic weapons into fully automatics ones.

“Depressing but not surprising,” is how one senior House Democratic aide put it.

“It’s pathetic,” said another.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-weeks-after-las-vegas-legislation-to-ban-bump-stocks-has-stalled-out-in-congress

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Three Weeks After Las Vegas, Legislation to Ban Bump Stocks Has Stalled Out in Congress (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2017 OP

There's often little hope in the US for logic, unless massive amounts of money are RKP5637 Oct 2017 #1

So the slaughters will continue and get even worse no doubt workinclasszero Oct 2017 #2

Even the GOP congressman getting shot up at the ball field did not make a difference. n/t RKP5637 Oct 2017 #5

Slaughters? DaleFromWPB Oct 2017 #6

Correction: 58 "events" (deaths) and 500-plus "events" (injuries) took place in Las Vegas. Demit Oct 2017 #9

Was there ever any real Bettie Oct 2017 #3

Such a law makes sense... but would likely be symbolic FBaggins Oct 2017 #4

Feinsteins bill banned more than bumpstocks and the NRA dug in Not Ruth Oct 2017 #7

The bill ends up not really being about bump stocks. ileus Oct 2017 #8

U really didn't think anything would happen did you? dembotoz Oct 2017 #10

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. There's often little hope in the US for logic, unless massive amounts of money are

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:13 AM

Oct 2017

passed around. Pathetic!

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

2. So the slaughters will continue and get even worse no doubt

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:19 AM

Oct 2017

Maybe a crazed gunman will take out a few hundred the next time at some public event.

NRA and republican approved of course.

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

5. Even the GOP congressman getting shot up at the ball field did not make a difference. n/t

Reply to workinclasszero (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:30 AM

Oct 2017

DaleFromWPB

(76 posts)

6. Slaughters?

Reply to workinclasszero (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:44 AM

Oct 2017

Bump stocks have been available since 2007 and the Obama administration declined to take any action to ban them.

They are a novelty item, I've only seen them used at outside ranges.

They remove your ability to aim effectively and cause your weapon to overheat.

There has been exactly ONE event using them - hardly the type of thing we need to start passing laws against.

Demit

(11,238 posts)

9. Correction: 58 "events" (deaths) and 500-plus "events" (injuries) took place in Las Vegas.

Reply to DaleFromWPB (Reply #6)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 11:00 AM

Oct 2017

Bettie

(16,110 posts)

3. Was there ever any real

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:24 AM

Oct 2017

doubt about this?

If a bunch of six year olds getting shot isn't cause for serious thought on the part of the gun nuts in congress, why on Earth would they care about adult victims?

They love their guns...well, they love the money they get from the NRA.