The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Clarifying that Bump-Fire-Stocks and Similar Devices are Machineguns Under Federal Law
After the mass shooting on October 1, 2017 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) undertook a reexamination of its prior determinations on the classification of bump-fire-stocks and similar devices (bump-stock-type devices). As a result, ATF has proposed a new rule reclassifying such devices as machineguns. Notice of the proposed rulemaking was published in the March 29th Federal Register and can be found...