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Trump Allows Sale of Device to Transform Firearms [View all]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/05/16/trump-allows-sale-of-device-to-transform-firearms/

Trump Allows Sale of Device to Transform Firearms
May 16, 2025 at 9:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

The Trump administration has decided to permit the sale of devices that enable standard firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy, NBC News reports.

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Trump Allows Sale of Device to Transform Firearms [View all] babylonsister May 17 OP

Trump loves killing Americans. Irish_Dem May 17 #1

He just loves killing -- especially if his victims are powerless. LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 17 #13

Wonderful. As if there wasn't enough to worry about already. Vinca May 17 #2

So all this talk about being afraid of assassination was just BS Walleye May 17 #3

Bad assumption. paleotn May 17 #6

Throwing another bone to his bloodthirsty MAGA gun worshippers, to distract them from his many failures. sop May 17 #4

The U.S. is already dead. Layzeebeaver May 17 #5

The awful sounds we hear...are the mass shooting victims spinning in their graves. FailureToCommunicate May 17 #7

re: reset triggers TnDem May 17 #8

Yeah, we need somebody to gunsplain this. Honestly, don't care about people who want more guns Walleye May 17 #9

re: understanding TnDem May 17 #21

It's a good logic, but no matter of logic is going to convince these people. They're nuts. Walleye May 17 #25

re: understanding TnDem May 17 #30

Almost everyone who wants a gun should have one. But they should remember what their purpose is Walleye May 17 #31

Hey, if we have to know chapter and verse on firearms to convince Aristus May 17 #33

I was ForgedCrank May 17 #22

Why? k_buddy762 May 20 #63

Not a machine gun just lets the shooter pull the trigger faster. 2MuchNoise May 17 #23

re: "pull trigger faster" TnDem May 17 #24

Yeah I'm not losing any sleep over forced reset trigger devices Shermann May 17 #27

I'm pretty knowledgeable about firearms, and you're dead wrong NickB79 May 17 #47

re: the law TnDem May 17 #50

Just how much... JPK May 17 #55

This is a video of someone using one of these jmowreader May 17 #49

This is correct k_buddy762 May 17 #53

Someone's gonna get to him using a bump stock. BradBo May 17 #10

Gun nutz Dave Id May 17 #11

Mexico will love this! RainCaster May 17 #12

Another step in his kill Americans tour paid for by Pooty and Eloon. lark May 17 #14

He's just trying to restore his losses among the MAGAt followers. Wonder Why May 17 #15

Crazy motherfuckers. spanone May 17 #16

I don't care anymore. * 617Blue May 17 #17

Then it should be called a "Trumper Conversion". JohnnyRingo May 17 #18

Hope Supressorors Lullybuy May 17 #19

Agreed. k_buddy762 May 17 #54

They want more shootings Beck23 May 17 #20

'Make my Glock go full auto': How criminals turn standard firearms into illegal machine guns Swede May 17 #26

re: "full auto" TnDem May 17 #29

That's for the militias stollen May 17 #28

Exactly what I thought when I read this, stollen peggysue2 May 17 #34

We will have "big beautiful guns!" yellowcanine May 17 #32

A man came up to me, a big man, a big strong man, a big, strong man who knows guns... 2MuchNoise May 17 #37

So, like, are bump stocks now passé? Brother Buzz May 17 #35

re: bump stocks TnDem May 17 #41

One sentence in the article isn't true Kaleva May 17 #36

re: machine guns TnDem May 17 #40

With the proper license, those restrictions don't apply Kaleva May 17 #43

Uh, not exactly TnDem May 17 #44

What you are saying doesn't refute what I said Kaleva May 17 #45

Uh, yes it does because they aren't transferable TnDem May 17 #46

Five, six, or even seven figures k_buddy762 May 17 #56

You are fixated on the gun being transferable Kaleva May 18 #58

re: Class 3 law TnDem May 18 #59

My father didn't own the small dairy farm he operated Kaleva May 19 #60

No, you don't TnDem May 19 #61

But you admit that my father could have owned them? Kaleva May 20 #62

Can you admit you are wrong? TnDem May 20 #65

Will the devices have "For Aryans Only" restrictions on them? Ping Tung May 17 #38

3D printed "glock switches" k_buddy762 May 20 #64

I would not mind one bit if this becomes one of his biggest ironies Nictuku May 17 #39

I agree Greywing May 17 #42

Rule of thumb: B.See May 17 #48

The Fox News MAGA conspiracy theory GOP wants us all dead. Initech May 17 #51

This is what the Proud Boys standing by have been waiting for. Kid Berwyn May 17 #52

Trump says bump stocks make the gun into a machine gun. Will ban them? Norrrm May 18 #57