Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Should R's bargain "bump stocks" for some other legislation?

Republicans should tack on outlawing abortion. Think how many lives could be saved every year, guaranteed. You know, for the children.

If they want their bumpstocks it should cost them dearly.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he wants Congress to look into so-called bump stocks, joining a growing number of Republican leaders who have expressed interest in taking action on the modifications that increase a weapon's rate of fire.

"Fully automatic weapons have been banned for a long time," Ryan told MSNBC host Hugh Hewitt. "Apparently, this allows you to take a semiautomatic and turn it into a fully automatic. So clearly that’s something we need to look into."

Ryan said that even though he's an avid hunter, he had never heard of the devices before Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas. "I think we’re quickly coming up to speed with what this is," Ryan said.

Republicans typically draw a hard line against any new rules to regulate guns, which they view as violations the Second Amendment. But the circumstances of the Las Vegas massacre, in which a dozen bump stocks were found in the shooter’s hotel room, and the longstanding consensus against automatic weapons, may create an opening for action.

What a bunch of defeatists. It's all in y'alls heads. The only new gun control should be taking guns away from all registered Democrats. Republicans should be authorized to do so and get to keep what they take. But seriously, doesn't anybody here actually believe what you are saying? Professor Lott summed it up years ago, "More guns equal less crime,". Take it seriously and remove the impediments to people defending themselves. IMO even worse than blatant infringements such as the 1968 GCA and the NFA are the current courts and the way they jail people for defending themselves. Let the dentist in OKC out of jail right now and hand him some money for the time spent behind bars. Quit letting these pogues bring civil suits against good shoots and let people defend their property with lethal force. The evil in this country would decrease exponentially. We need to quit wringing our hands and take our country back from the politicians and their masters the globalists.

A compromise typically leaves 2 dissatisfied parties.

Very few people here are advocating giving up something in exchange for nothing. To me, these devices have no value and I would never want one. Even if that is true, I still wouldn't give in to legislation, unless and only if, the left was willing to give us back something of value in exchange. For me, as I have said, I would consider SBR and suppressor deregulation in exchange for these devices. Just letting them take something and getting nothing in return is submission. Getting something of value in exchange for something I don't care about is a net victory imo. If tomorrow, SBRs and suppressors were deregulated, and you could not buy a bump stock, you don't think you are better off? But yeah, if the other side isn't willing to give us something that I consider of the same or more value in exchange, I say fuggem.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urged Ryan to allow a vote on a Democratic bill to ban the devices. When asked whether the bill might represent a slippery slope toward other gun restrictions, Pelosi said, “So what? . . . I certainly hope so.”