NOTE: This and recent articles on Rep. Ryan backing away from this issue makes us wonder if Rep. Paulsen saying he supports the effort was a “run to the middle” on an issue he knew would go nowhere. That’s his typical behavior as an election approaches.
The following article by Griffin Connolly was posted on the Roll Call website October 25, 2017:
Efforts to ban bump stocks have come to a screeching halt, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives once again indicating it does not have the authority to reclassify and regulate the devices.
The ATF wrote letters in 2010 and 2013 explaining how current laws — the Gun Control Act (1968) and National Firearms Act (1934) — do not provide an avenue for the bureau to regulate the gun attachments, which enable shooters to fire semiautomatic weapons at nearly the rate of automatic ones.
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