Because America’s collective memory can only handle one mass murder at a time …
Slide Fire, the company that owns the patent on the [bump stock] rifle modification, said it has resumed taking new orders for bump stocks for the first time after temporarily suspending new sales a month ago.
"We will resume limited sales on November 1st at 8:30 a.m. CST," said Slide Fire, in an email from its customer services department to prospective buyers. "However, we have not yet reached adequate inventory levels to offer sales of all products."
The statement that Slide Fire hasn’t reached “adequate inventory levels” likely represents a rush of orders for their turn-my-rife-into-a-machine-gun product by Americans who worry that someone might take away their right to people in bulk. But they need not worry ,,,
A month after the deadliest mass shooting in America brought bump stocks to national attention, the rifle modification is again for sale and there's no regulation on the horizon.
If someone was out there selling kits to convert trucks into spike-tired, flame-throwing machines expressly designed to mow down pedestrians, and one of these kits were used in the largest mass murder in decades, it’s possible that someone would take action. But this is a gun-mod. So …
The NRA had pushed back against thoughts of legislation, instead suggesting it could be taken care of through regulation by the ATF. And how is that going?
On Tuesday, Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut who has been engaged in the gun debate on Capitol Hill for years, told CNN that he's heard nothing on whether the ATF is seriously looking at changing regulations surrounding bump stocks.