Friday, March 30, 2018

A Reasonable Accommodation

I know Second Amendment extremists oppose any limitation on firearms. Yet truly automatic weapons - machine guns and other weapons which fire repeatedly with a single trigger pull - are now and have long been illegal in private hands.

The "no automatic weapons" limitation has always seemed reasonable to me. I see no reason not to broaden it slightly to include any alteration to a weapon which has that same effect, including so-called "bump stocks," "gatling triggers" and any other old or new trick to achieve the same effect.