ATF admitting over reach with bump stocks?

[Screwball]

Ok, but isn’t the recent ATF decision contrary to their previous ‘direction’, from whomever...and now that they have a contrary view, won’t the head of ATF get ‘that call’ from Barr or whomever?

That is correct... and unless there is an office that investigates those situations, Attorney General Barr would be the one to review it.

However, DHS and DOJ are completely separate departments with different agencies within... and different chains of command/heads. Pointing that out, because the Acting Secretary of DHS wouldn’t be worrying about that.

 

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On December 18, 2018, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced that the Department of Justice has amended the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), clarifying that bump stocks fall within the definition of “machinegun” under federal law, as such devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger

Sounds like Barr has decided the ban wasn’t legal and is directing the ATF to reverse course. Wonder if the guy in the big chair knows about this, directed this..or cares, considering his past rhetoric...

 

[L2R]

44, thank you for saying it better than I did.

While the technicality of all this matters, the end result was the point.
The ATF's decision changed many who were upstanding citizens into law breakers if they didn't rid themselves of the bump stocks. Last count I saw was that less than 600 have been turned in.