> Example: the Las Vegas shooting prompted a lot of talk of bump stock bans. Bump stocks are so rarely used at all, nevermind in violence, and they will generally ruin guns that weren't originally made to be fully-automatic very quickly if they're actually used for sustained automatic fire.
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This is non-sense. Typical semi-auto are wayyy over build. Unless mechanical wear or explicit tempering of the disconnector, there is no risk whatsoever to fire thousands of rounds with a bump stock. Actually, plastic/wood furniture are more likely to burn/melt before the mechanical parts will actually fail. As worst, you might bend a gas piston, but the rifle will otherwise be fine.
The underlying reasoning behind the push against the bump stock ban is that it was basically a semi-auto ban, as you can trivially with a bit of training bump fire any semi-auto without a bump stock from either the shoulder or the hip with a mere finger.
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Tubes on low- to mid- range civilian DE guns can burn out very quickly, and are in fact designed to do so long before you get damage to the more expensive parts of the gun - I've seen it happen in most of the cases (which are admittedly quite few in number despite how often I'm there) where I've seen someone using a bump stock at a range. In the most recent case I think the guy was on his 3rd mag and it ruptured. It was a M&P 15 Sport II, if I recall. Not a cheap no-name brand, but about as low-cost as you can get and missing all the upgrades in the version they market to cops. High-end ARs would fair better, I'd expect, but high-end ARs are again so rarely used for actual violence because they're usually only purchased by people shooting for a serious hobby in stable life situations. And honestly I feel the same people buying those probably feel bump stocks are tacky and gaudy like I do.
Even in the most liberal interpretation of the proposed law, I don't think any bump stock ban would become a semi-auto ban. I could see the vague language getting applied to after-market triggers, especially ones like Franklin Armory, but you've gotta have some added device for any of the proposals I've seen to even remotely apply.
<off-topic> This is non-sense. Typical semi-auto are wayyy over build. Unless mechanical wear or explicit tempering of the disconnector, there is no risk whatsoever to fire thousands of rounds with a bump stock. Actually, plastic/wood furniture are more likely to burn/melt before the mechanical parts will actually fail. As worst, you might bend a gas piston, but the rifle will otherwise be fine.
The underlying reasoning behind the push against the bump stock ban is that it was basically a semi-auto ban, as you can trivially with a bit of training bump fire any semi-auto without a bump stock from either the shoulder or the hip with a mere finger. </off-topi>