As I see it, with the current House, Senate, and POTUS, hell even SCOTUS... the NRA shouldn't have to "give up" anything.
My hope is that they are trying to
get something in exchange. Something more important than bumpfire stocks.
My best guess is that they want to tie it to National CCW Reciprocity, especially since they mentioned that specifically at the end of the "official statement" from Dana Loesch. The NRA has had that as a high priority for some time now, as it's a way to get all the holdout no-issue, and stingy may-issue states on their knees in one fell swoop. Instead of having to fight battles in courts, or state by state in their various legislatures, or force CCW on the states who'll never approve it otherwise because they have perpetual liberal Democrat control.
I'm a bit "meh" on that myself, simply because I think that we're going to get there, or at least get to grudging shall-issue in all 50 states through the courts as it is. And if Nat. CCW Recip. passes, it'll still take years of lawsuits in Federal court against those states to force it's implementation, making the difference between the two approaches negligible.
It'll never happen, but what I'd like to see, is an effort to pass a bill making bumpfire stocks and reflex triggers as being the same as NFA machine guns. This would allow the supporting votes to paint any resistance from the Democrats or RINOs as ludicrous, since they'd be against:
- A special extra ATF application form.
- An additional $200 tax.
- A special background check "performed by the ATF".
- You have to send a letter notifying your local CLEO.
- A multi-month ATF waiting period.
And further, you could point out that doing it this way would ensure any other new devices that are invented after bumpfire stocks are properly checked and registered too. If the bumpfire stock is simply "banned", then you'd have the problem of a potentially infinite number of new devices that skirt the law being banned individually year after year...
Of course, to facilitate that, the law would also have to remove the Hughes Amendment '86 machine gun freeze.
It'll never happen of course, but that's probably because people with actual good ideas like this make poor politicians, and poor NRA lobbyists etc.