Rapid fire rifle device on special offer in salute to Trump

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Rapid fire rifle device on special offer in salute to Trump

Rapid fire rifle device on special offer in salute to Trump
‘Bump stock’ used by Las Vegas shooter in promotional tie in with presidential campaign slogan

Lois Beckett
Sun 18 Feb 2018 23.07 GMT Last modified on Mon 19 Feb 2018 08.47 GMT

There is a Presidents’ Day sale on bump stocks, the device the Las Vegas shooter put on his rifles. Slide Fire Solutions, a bump stocks manufacturer, is offering 10% off with the coupon code MAGA.

That’s a salute to the campaign slogan of President Donald Trump, who promised to “Make America Great Again”, and who has responded to the deadly massacres in the past five months by continuing to oppose any new gun control laws.

“#HeresToFreedom,” the company wrote in a marketing email announcing the sale.

Before the Las Vegas shooting, which left 58 people dead and hundreds injured, bump stocks were an obscure range device popular with firearms enthusiasts.

Link to tweet

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/18/rapid-fire-rifle-device-on-special-offer-in-salute-to-donald-trump

[Freedomofspeech]

1. My God...

I have no words.

[zipplewrath]

2. And where's the DNC?

We always hear about "bad optics". If there were ever bad optics, it is this. I would think the DNC social media operation would be all over this.

[Wwcd]

3. LOL..the DNC doesn't make the laws in this country..

The only ones to blame are the SENATORS & REPS who protect guns rights before human rights.

Lets Name the Senators who failed to protect its citizens.
Which ones have taken NRA campaign cash & voted in lock step as they requested.

[zipplewrath]

4. I was thinking more in terms of political ads

This kind of thing would be all over social media and Fox News if the roles were reversed. But the GOP can get away with this stuff without effect.

[Wwcd]

5. Noted. However I still think DU should have a list of all Senators & Reps

..along with their NRA voting record.

Does ther rhetoric match their voting record.

Campaign cash given for voting favors...ya know.

[Always Right]

6. Bump Stocks have been around for 8 years, misused once

Bump Stock Patent

The bump stock was patented 8 years before the Las Vegas shooting and has been employed in 1 crime but now look at all the political capital being used to ban it.

On the other hand, texting and driving, which is already banned is responsible for 330,000 injuries each year. Why are we not doing more to prevent texting and driving?

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving]

The National Highway and Safety Board says that distracted driving claimed 3,477 lives in 2015, which is ten times as many killed with rifles of all types (not just semi auto look alike so called assault weapons). So you are 10 times more likely to be killed by a distracted driver than any kind of rifle. Where is the outrage?

[moriah]

7. South Park already did their take on that....