ATF to Classify 'Bump Stocks' as Machine Guns, Setting New Import/Export Restrictions
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will add “bump stocks” to its definition for machine guns, it said in a final rule posted by the Justice Department in a news release. The change would apply the restrictions on…
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machine guns, including those applicable to importation and exportation, to bump stocks. Under the National Firearms Act, machine guns may only be imported for sale to federal and state government agencies. The rule would amend the definition of machine guns in ATF’s regulations so that it “includes a device that allows semiautomatic firearms to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm to which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger by the shooter (commonly known as bump-stock-type devices).”