of \u00a0the vapors while we\u2019re on this subject.<\/span><\/p>\n– The money involved totals about $96.2 million overall in about 7 years, including taxes. That\u2019s nothing to sneeze at.<\/p>\n
– Purchase prices range from $180 to $452 per item. Likewise, this is nothing to sneeze at.<\/p>\n
– If the bump stocks go, the sales taxes go with them, so there\u2019s an economic loss no one thought about.<\/p>\n
– There\u2019s no compensation to people who decide to cave into a silly demand \u00a0Zero. Zip. Nada. Just leave it at the precinct desk or hand it over.<\/p>\n
– As with weapons, there\u2019s absolutely no guarantee that the po-po-pohlease will actually destroy it, so there should be a demand that the prior owner can watch while it\u2019s chewed up in the wood chipper.<\/p>\n
– There are no serial numbers on these things, so how could they be tracked in any way, period?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at the practicalities of ownership, too.<\/p>\n
– The cost of ammunition is not exactly comparable to bubblegum, is it? Rapid fire eats up more in one go than single shot fire, by a long shot.<\/p>\n
– You\u2019d have to keep it attached to the weapon anyway, because if your kids find it sitting by itself, they may use it for a lawn hockey puck or something for the dog to fetch, or your rugrat may think it’s a teething ring.<\/p>\n
– Your bestie might decide it makes a really, really cute key fob or a hook to hang pots on in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
– As has been noted in various videos, you can get the same effect with a heavy duty rubber band, which costs about $.01 each, which means that for about $1.50, you\u2019re right back in business with rapid fire shooting even if the po-po make you hand the thing over.<\/p>\n
– As has been noted by other people than moi-m\u00eame, the only people who are really worried about it are politicians and others of their ilk, because they are all quite sure that you, an owner of weapons, \u201cmight\u201d use it on them. (Paranoia and delusions come with the job, in my view.) \u00a0Considering the cost of ammo, I can\u2019t think of a good reason to waste it on those parasites.<\/p>\n
So maybe the real solution is to just not own one, but instead, go to your office supply store and get a big box of heavy duty rubber bands, buy cheaper ammo, and let \u2018er fly. And then when the pohlease show up at your door looking for a bump stock (not that it\u2019s likely to happen, they have real crimes to pursue), you can truthfully say \u201cNo such animal here, thanks for asking.\u201d Kind of goes along with that terrible loss of some items falling overboard on your last hunting trip in a canoe.<\/p>\n
Now, personally, I\u2019d keep the crossbow and quarrels hanging over the fireplace in plain sight, along with the two-handed swords, the gladius, and the Viking sword, and my hunting bow and full quiver. They\u2019d look at that and get puzzled, but with no guns anywhere and no bump stocks (which seem like a waste of cash to me) –\u00a0 well, what can those poor fellas do? After all, if the ATF has determined that it has no authority to remove bump stocks from the possession of the owners, then it\u2019s the state\u2019s cost, not the taxpayers\u2019.<\/p>\n
Frankly, I doubt this is anything but another crackpot scheme to garner votes. Let\u2019s recall that Ms. Haspel was approved for her CIA position on a 54-45 vote. That is a shift by itself. There are likely more to come. Stay alert.<\/p>\n
There will continue to be more screeching by the media and the self-terrorized. I think they get some kind of adrenaline rush out of the self-inspired terror, some sort of peculiar mind-orgasm with the rush that follows and gives them a giddy high.<\/p>\n
It does not help that the Florida county school shooter\u2019s videos have been posted on the internet by the vultures in the media. Nor does it help that the noisy rampages of the media contribute to the next idiot who is hell-bent on collecting his 15 minutes of Warhol fame. There is a definite connection there. The lack of reality in blaming an inanimate part<\/em> for a weapon that can\u2019t perform without human interference is part of the neurosis involved in this nonsense, and that is slowly evolving into some sort of psycho freakout at even the mention of GUNNZZZ.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Crossbow-Bumpstock-2-300x98.jpg\")
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A\u00a0crossbow with a bumpstock??? Okay!! (Thanks, Big Guy!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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