How does this fit with Trump playing 4-D chess?
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King Trump plans to make a piece of plastic the equivalent of a fully automatic weapon by dictatorial decree.
Rules like this could eventually lead to any pre-assembled rifle/pistol cartridge declared the equivalent of a machine gun.
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So Trump is all set to do his ban on "bump stocks." Let's look at a few aspects of this:
1 - This is not being done by legislation. It is being unilaterally done, dictator-style, by just declaring bump-stocks to fit within the definition of what is already "illegal," in direct contrast to the DOJ's own prior interpretation of the law, going back for decades. In other words, Trump is declaring that what the ATF and DOJ thought the law meant before wasn't authoritarian and controlling enough. (Incidentally, he could just as easily do the same thing with tri-burst trigger assemblies next.)