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In all seriousness, I'm really interested to see the exact wording of this new regulation. Does anyone know the gist of their approach / logic?

Are they planning to ban all devices that were not part of the original, manufactured, gun and which increase the rate of fire? That would mean I couldn't drop in a lighter trigger, and also that I can build an AR with a bump stock from the start, so that won't work.

Or are they going to ban any device, which when installed (even as part of the original gun manufacture), allows a potential rate of fire above X rounds per minute? If that is the case, then every gun needs to be banned, including revolvers (google a Jerry Michulek video). The trigger itself allows a tremendous rate of fire in the right hands. Heck even a bolt action can fire rounds pretty rapidly, if we are to believe the official story of the Warren commission.

We already know that they can't use the existing definition of a machine gun since a bump stock, on it's own, has no rate of fire, and can't discharge any rounds at all. Even when installed on a rifle you still can only fire one round per pull of the trigger. But if the ban only applies to devices after they are installed, then bump stocks would not be banned on their own.

So how exactly are they planning to word this regulation?

MechAg94 wrote:The problem with the bump stock bans is they are not just saying "bump stocks" are illegal. The popular language being used says that "rate increasing devices" are banned that simulate full auto fire. If you were a gun grabbing politician or bureaucrat, what would be defined as a "rate increasing device"? I think quite a number of aftermarket modifications could included in that. So yeah, bump stocks may not be the hill to die on, but they might be trying to take a different hill.

Also, if the Feds administratively reclassify bump stocks as machine guns, will they allow those that are currently owned to be registered?

I just saw an interview of a Dem politician and he was wearing a tie, which of course is a "rate increasing device". Do I just call 911, or is there a specific number I can use to report this dangerous criminal?