No, Obama didn’t legalize them, he just didn’t declare them illegal. And they don’t make legal guns into illegal machine guns. While they increase the firing they don’t change the nature of how they fire, which is what makes a machine gun a machine gun. And it isn’t about bump stocks per se. If a president can do that with bump stocks without Congress, than he can do that against any gun element at all, and that’s a problem.
Via Daily Caller:
President Donald Trump announced Friday evening plans for the Justice Department to ban all bump stocks, pending a mandated comment period.
“Obama Administration legalized bump stocks. BAD IDEA,” Trump tweeted Friday. “As I promised, today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banning BUMP STOCKS with a mandated comment period.”
President Donald Trump speaks to the press about the $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress early Friday, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on March 23, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
“We will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.”
Trump first formerly proposed banning the modifications in February.
“Since the day he took office, President Trump has had no higher priority than the safety of each and every American,” attorney general Jeff Sessions said in a statement accompanying Trump’s announcement. “That is why today the Department of Justice is publishing for public comment a proposed rulemaking that would define ‘machinegun’ to include bump stock-type devices under federal law — effectively banning them.”