Diaper Don, the "Take away their guns and worry about the due process later" guy? That Donald Trump, right?

If memory serves, the Obama administration (the one far right was screaming for 8 years was going to take away all the guns) specifically looked at bump stocks and said they were legal.

Trump freaked out at the Las Vegas shooting and pushed the ban ASAP.

"Take away their guns and worry about the due process later”

Donald Trump.

They don't need to ban specific parts, and in fact they shouldn't. They could ban anything designed to accelerate rate of fire.

I don't think anyone is going to build a triggerless pseudo-machine gun. You could build one where, when you close the action, it fires until it's out of ammo, but that's not very controllable. See also: slamfire.

He probably could, but he can't buy a gun to put on it so what he's got is a funny shaped ineffective club.

I suppose the tenth amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Unless prohibited by law, you have the power to do anything you like. As it probably says in the article, this needs to be law, not ATF opinion.

It's right there in the paragraph about nuclear weapons.

Religious tyrants have gotten into power, they are forcing women into service as incubators. Nobody sane has taken up arms against the government. It is the "conservatives" who are fighting at the ballot box to erode our liberties and human rights.

"Conservatives" want to elect an openly racist demagogue who already committed a putsch and is asking SCOTUS to hand him a Long Knife.

LOL "conservatives" refusing to allow rights to be eroded. Yeah buddy, the women are going to force their way into math class holding the teacher at gunpoint.

I'll remind my daughter next time she calls me having a panic attack during an active shooter lockdown that at least she still has the right to ~~love who she wants~~ ~~make her own reproductive healthcare choices~~ ~~get IVF if she can't have kids~~ ~~be open and honest about who she is~~

the right to bear arms exists to protect people from tyrants

This is a complete fiction, a true American mythology that exists in the modern day.

The right to bear arms was more about homestead defense against indigenous natives and foreign invading armies than it was for any kind of poison pill for Americans to topple their own government if they woke up one day and decided they don't like who's in charge anymore. The very notion that the founders would set up a new system of governance but be okay with the idea of baking in gun ownership rights to ensure that the people will always be able to conduct a violent insurrection as the vehicle for regime change is absurd.

Everybody likes to ignore the "well-regulated militia" part of that amendment, conveniently ignoring that a well regulated militia would answer to the state or the federal government, the very force of tyranny that they claim they need the guns to defend themselves against.

Conservatives would be the first to call anyone participating in the uprising unamerican and would be more likely to form reactionary militias supportive of the fascist government than to overthrow anything

I agree with the first part. It was supposed to be a check and balance to government power and oppression. It gives people the power to fight back against injustice.

However, in the time of intercontinental missiles, planes, tanks, and remote operated drones, are a bunch of peasants with guns actually going to do anything if the government turned on its people? Does the "right to bear arms" not extend to other, non-gun weapons?