1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i ATFs Ability to Regulate “Bump Stocks” Updated April 11, 2018 UPDATE: Following the publication of this Sidebar, the Justice Departments Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) published a no
2、tice of proposed rulemaking declaring its intention to clarify, through regulation, that “bump fire stocks, slide-fire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics (bump-stock-type devices) are machineguns” under the National Firearms Act (NFA) and the Gun Control Act (GCA). In doing so
3、, ATF proposes to interpret three terms in the GCA and the NFA: (1) “single function of the trigger”; (2) “automatically”; and (3) “machinegun.” Single function of the trigger will be defined as “single pull of the trigger.” Automatically will mean “as the result of a self-acting or self-regulating
4、mechanism that allows the firing of multiple rounds through a single pull of the trigger.” And machinegun will include “a device that allows semiautomatic firearms to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by harnessing the recoil energy of the semiautomatic firearm to which it i
