Book Update – Bump Stocks & Trigger Cranks

FREE BOOK UPDATE – NEW JERSEY GUN LAW

By Evan F. Nappen, Esq.

BUMP STOCKS & TRIGGER CRANKS

LOOPHOLES & PITFALLS:

Leave it to New Jersey to ban something that was already banned. Bump stocks were already prohibited.
Under prior law, they were already banned as “assault firearms” as explained above. Our legislators’ predictable knee-jerk reaction is always to “Ban it!”, even if it was already banned. It just feels so good to “do something”, no matter how meaningless.

Under the bump stock’s vague and overbroad definition, apparently a rubber band could be construed to be a bump stock. Merely hooking a rubber band to the trigger of a semi-automatic firearm and wrapping it around the magazine well and hooking it back to the trigger can dramatically increase “…the rate of fire achievable with the firearm by using energy from the recoil of the firearm to generate a reciprocating action that facilitates repeated activation of the trigger.” Demonstrations of this technique may easily be found on the internet.

Here are some examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNO7ich0ns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5XzQ1BS7gU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4cqBFmjtA