He's an ex-New York Democrat. It wouldn't be surprising.
But I trust anonymous "reports" about as much as I trust the parents of joggers who were "good boys". And he also didn't actually do anything to ban AR-15s so meh.
I'd ban bump stocks. Assault weapon bans are bullshit, but I don't think it's unreasonable to demand that a gun not malfunction and empty the magazine without the user's active input. If you're holding a gun and you put a bullet in someone's brain, it should be because you made the conscious decision to do so.
Bump stocks are just a horrible idea in general. What kind of lunatic thinks putting Cruise Control on a gun is a good idea? I'd sleep more soundly knowing my neighbor owns an M249 SAW than a glock with a bump stock.
I just find it an odd thing to ban. You can use one as a toy. It seems harmless in that capacity. It is useless as a weapon and the only one that supposedly used one was the Las Vegas "shooter"
You can use one as a toy. It seems harmless in that capacity.
I can't speak specifically of bump stocks, but people have been killed because an inexperienced user's instinctive response to the noise and recoil of firing an automatic weapon was to hold on tight even as muzzle rise pulled the gun off target.
Nothing in this article leads me in that direction, I'll say that.
The news about Trump is buried in a lengthy story in The Washinton Post on Monday about AR-15 style rifles....Trump told aides that he wanted to ban AR-15s, according to people present for the statements....“I don’t know why anyone needs an AR-15,” Trump told aides...according to a person who heard his comments....As one former official put it in describing the real estate developer turned politician, “His reflexes were a New York liberal on guns. He doesn’t have knee-jerk conservative reflexes.”
He really said that?
He's an ex-New York Democrat. It wouldn't be surprising.
But I trust anonymous "reports" about as much as I trust the parents of joggers who were "good boys". And he also didn't actually do anything to ban AR-15s so meh.
I would wait for corroboration of some sort, but I could see him being dumb enough to say that. He's far from flawless.
he did ban bump stock. or atleast tried too.
He did, after the very suspicious LV shooting.
I'd ban bump stocks. Assault weapon bans are bullshit, but I don't think it's unreasonable to demand that a gun not malfunction and empty the magazine without the user's active input. If you're holding a gun and you put a bullet in someone's brain, it should be because you made the conscious decision to do so.
Bump stocks are just a horrible idea in general. What kind of lunatic thinks putting Cruise Control on a gun is a good idea? I'd sleep more soundly knowing my neighbor owns an M249 SAW than a glock with a bump stock.
I just find it an odd thing to ban. You can use one as a toy. It seems harmless in that capacity. It is useless as a weapon and the only one that supposedly used one was the Las Vegas "shooter"
I can't speak specifically of bump stocks, but people have been killed because an inexperienced user's instinctive response to the noise and recoil of firing an automatic weapon was to hold on tight even as muzzle rise pulled the gun off target.
Nothing in this article leads me in that direction, I'll say that.
3rd hand Trump conversations. Gotta love em
I also think Trump is pliable. It's entirely possible he thought better of that idea. In fact, that's kind of what the article says.
One bullshit source about a private conversation several years ago.