{"id":97271,"date":"2018-03-25T07:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=97271"},"modified":"2018-03-25T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:13:49","slug":"trump-goes-after-bump-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=97271","title":{"rendered":"Trump goes after bump stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Directs DOJ to Ban Bump Stocks in Response to Gun Control Outcry<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_97272\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bump-stock-getty-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97272\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bump-stock-getty-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bump-stock-getty-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/bump-stock-getty-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Frey\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by AWR HAWKINS<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h3>President Donald Trump directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday to finalize plans to ban bump stocks.<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Hill<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/374722-trump-to-take-steps-to-ban-bump-stocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that Trump mentioned that the \u201cprocess\u201d of banning bump stocks began in December.<\/p>\n<p>It was December 28, 2017, when Breitbart News\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2017\/12\/28\/atf-backdoor-bump-stock-gun-control\/\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was accepting public comment on proposed regulatory gun control that would alter the definition of \u201cmachinegun\u201d to cover machineguns and non-machineguns, too. This shift allows the ATF to use the National Firearms Act (1934) to control firearm accessories like bump stocks in the same way\u00a0it\u00a0controls actual machine guns and devices that convert semiautomatic firearms into machine guns.<\/p>\n<p>Gun control outlet The Trace\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/rounds\/atf-bump-stock-regulation-comments-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the public comment period ended with roughly 36,000 comments, of which more than eight out of\u00a0ten\u00a0voiced opposition to bump stock gun control.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump is supporting regulatory action against the firearm accessories.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump announces he has directed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose regulations that would ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/966053235374125057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump also said he expects regulations banning bump stocks to \u201cbe finalized \u2026 very soon.\u201d<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bump stocks were not used in the February 14 attack in Florida. Nor were they used in the Texas church attack (November 5, 2017),\u00a0the Alexandria attack (June 14, 2017), the Orlando attack (June 12, 2016), the San Bernardino attack (December 2, 2015),\u00a0the Umpqua Community College attack (October 1, 2015), the Lafayette movie theater attack (July 23, 2015), the Chattanooga attack (July 16, 2015), the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal attack (Jun 17, 2015),\u00a0the Santa Barbara attack (May 23, 2014), the Fort Hood attack (April 2, 2014), the D.C. Navy Yard attack (September 16, 2013), the Aurora movie theater attack (July 20, 2012), the Gabby Giffords (January 8, 2011) attack, or the Virginia Tech attack (April 16, 2007), among others.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas attack is the only high profile public attack in which a bump stock was used criminally.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/20\/trump-directs-doj-ban-bump-stocks-response-gun-control-outcry\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/02\/20\/trump-directs-doj-ban-bump-stocks-response-gun-control-outcry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Directs DOJ to Ban Bump Stocks in Response to Gun Control Outcry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}