Term of the Day: LEGALIZED MASS MURDER

This is a video on how to operate a pump handle shotgun.
It is most often used for hunting and it is legal.

This is a video of how to operate a semi-automatic shotgun.

It eliminates the need for pumping the barrel to load the next bullet.  It is sometimes used for hunting, although some states ban their use for that purpose, and whether or not they are legal depends on where in the country you stand.  In other words, while not true in all fifty states, they are legal.

The three images below are examples of what is called a "bump stock".  Its purpose is to allow a semi-automatic shotgun (seen above) to fire as a fully automatic shotgun.

 

Below is a video of someone using a semi-automatic rifle equipped with a bump stock.
(** Note: there are 100 rounds in the clip.  Listen to how fast they are all spent.)

Now, get this: Bump stocks are legal.  Why?  One reason is that they are only part of a gun, not a gun itself, that's why. 

This is Jill Snyder.  Jill Snyder is the Special Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF).  Just days ago, in Las Vegas, she said the following:  "Bump fire stocks, while simulating automatic fire, do not actually alter the firearm to fire automatically, making them legal under current federal law."

Don't alter the firearm?  ARE YOU KIDDING ME??!!!!  The bump stock has to actually become a fully automatic firearm itself in order be rendered illegal?  Simulated automatic fire kills just as many people as does fire from an actual fully automatic weapon.  Give me a break!

So, let me get this straight:  Bump stocks don't mix your eggs to make scrambled eggs or wash your car.  You can't make calls with them like a cell phone.  They aren't alarm clocks and they are useless for doing laundry.  However, bump stocks are legal under federal law because they are not weapons and they, allegedly, do no altering of a firearm.  (I'm sorry, but "altering" is a flat-out synonym for "changing", and by making a semi-automatic weapon fire exactly like a fully automatic weapon, you are changing/altering the way that weapon fires, plain and simple.)

While the government minces words, mass shooters are cutting down more and more people.

Laws passed by the government can make something legal or illegal.  If there is no legislation regarding something whatsoever, the default position is that whatever it is, it is legal.  It may be distasteful, immoral, or unethical, but legally it is still just fine.

If you own a business that sells firearms, you are federally required to perform a background check on the prospective buyer.  If you sell firearms privately, completely unrelated to any firearms business, you are not federally required to perform a background check ... and in the majority of U.S. states, not even the state requires you to do a background check!  If you sell firearms at a gun show, which falls under the private seller category, you too are not required to perform background checks.  An added element of the "gun show loophole", as it is called, is that not even a record of the sale is required.  (Certainly, a private seller is not going to keep a record around anywhere, either.)  Gun shows are not selling only pistols as firearms, either! 

However, if you buy a gun from someone privately or attend a gun show to buy a firearm, you do need one form of photo identification.  It is on green paper stock and the photo is of a dead president of the United States. 

If someone buys firearms, any firearms, as well as modifications like bump stocks, and uses it/them to commit murder, the sale itself is still legal.  (Are the number of murderers who buy weapons this way simply buying them to admire them?  Are they all antiques collectors?)  While the act of murder is still illegal, the means by which the murderer acquires the weapon(s) is legal.  It is condemning the act, but legalizing the ease of access to do it.

It is all a close relative of legalized mass murder.

Terry