Dem NM Gov Won't Cooperate With Trump Deportations (Tom Homan Had a Reminder...
BOOMITY! Elon Musk's Post About What Karma REALLY Looks Like Will Definitely Leave...
A Wildcard Wednesday Whoop A** on Elites
'Unfairly Becoming a Distraction': Matt Gaetz Withdraws From Attorney General Consideratio...
And We're Officially DEAD: Don't Look Now BUT Rob Reiner Just Basically Committed...
AP: Court Overturns Jussie Smollett's Conviction for 'Staging a Racist and Homophobic Atta...
Who They REALLY Are: Thread Shows UNHINGED Trans Activists Attacking Sarah McBride for...
'Not EVERYTHING Is About Trump': Even Cenk Uygur Has ENOUGH of JoJoFromJerz's BS,...
Just for Fun, Here's Rush Limbaugh in 1992 Shredding Al Gore's '10 Years...
Right. In. Our. Veins! Mark Cuban Pisses Tolerant Lefties OFF Pushing for Free...
Bucks County Commissioner Plays Victim After Getting BUSTED Trying to Steal PA Seat...
Propaganda Alert! ABC News Journo Tries Hard to Blame Trump for Laken Riley...
WHOA! Bill O’Reilly Reveals NBC Desperate to Dump MSNBC PLUS THIS ABC Show...
Spare Us, Snow White: Rachel Zegler Records Horrible Video Full of Narcissism and...
PLEASE Let Them Be This Dumb: Reports Circulate About a HILARIOUS Potential DNC...

DOJ hopes bump stock owners will voluntarily surrender them because they're law-abiding people

As Twitchy reported earlier, President Donald Trump followed through on a promise he made this spring to reclassify bump stocks as machine guns, thus making them illegal to possess.

Advertisement

Our question then was, just how close are we getting to confiscation, if something that was purchased legally suddenly becomes illegal to possess? The Washington Free Beacon’s Stephen Gutowski continued his thread from earlier after speaking with someone at the Justice Department.

Gutowski writes:

When asked how the DOJ plans to enforce the new ban, officials said they had no broad enforcement plans and would consider cases as they come up.

“We have no plans to go door to door nor do we have the resources,” a senior official told reporters. “The Department of Justice primarily relies on voluntary compliance by citizens. Most firearms owners are law-abiding citizens. We anticipate compliance with the law. Those who choose not to comply with the law we will investigate on a case-by-case basis. There is not a blanket plan here.”

When asked why the DOJ believes the confiscation of bump-stocks without compensation is in compliance with the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on taking lawful property from Americans without fair compensation, the DOJ officials referred reporters to the rule’s explanation. The rule itself claims the government can take previously legal property so long as it is dangerous and taking it serves a public safety interest.

Advertisement

Again, like we said earlier, we can take or leave bump stocks, but apparently, there’s no plan on how to enforce the new rule, and — not that this sets a bad precedent or anything — the government can take your property if doing so serves a public safety interest.

We know we feel safer now.

Advertisement

So we’re not the only ones who thought that. Wait until Moms Demand and Everytown hear Trump is all for the seizure of dangerous property.

What does the NRA have to say about this?

Advertisement

There doesn’t seem to be much common sense behind this bit of common-sense gun reform.


Related:

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement