I posted a lengthy facebook rant on the issues with FL's ban bump stocks law, and why it's a freaking nightmare for compliance and enforcement. I'll excerpt below, but the basics is that the people writing the law don't know what they are trying to ban, and use imprecise language, which while it works well in stump speeches, is less useful in legislation.
FL just passed a gun control bill, and I live in FL and have guns so as a responsible citizen I perused the bill to make sure I stay in compliance with the law. All 105 pages of it. Here is one small section:
"790.222 Bump-fire stocks prohibited.—A person may not import into this state or transfer, distribute, sell, keep for sale, offer for sale, possess, or give to another person a bump fire stock. A person who violates this section commits a felony
740 of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s.775.083, or s. 775.084. As used in this section, the term “bump fire stock” means a conversion kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device used to alter the rate of fire of a firearm to mimic
automatic weapon fire or which is used to increase the rate of
fire to a faster rate than is possible for a person to fire such
semiautomatic firearm unassisted by a kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device."
OK. FL wants to ban Bump Stocks. I don't have any. But hey! that says Felony so let me be sure. A bump stock is any "kit, tool, or accessory used to alter the rate of fire of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire". Pause. The *expletive deleted*ck does that mean? AN M2 has a cyclic rate of about 450 rds/min. A GAU-8 can do 4200 rds/min. Which is OK? does that mean if I slow a semi-auto Tec-9's rate of fire down to that of an M2's I'm in trouble? *expletive deleted*it. well what else does it say?
"fire to a faster rate than is possible for a person to fire such
semiautomatic firearm unassisted by a kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device."
A Person? What the Hell? OK. this is the technical part. This is only for an AR-15, but it will serve to illustrate my point. When you fire an AR-15, the bullet moves down the barrel until it passes a gas port, where some of the gas is bled off, carried back to the bolt carrier, and used to unlock the bolt carrier and give it a hard shove backwards. The bolt carrier retracts, and cocks the hammer on the way back. The hammer is caught and held by the disconnector because the trigger is still to the rear. The bolt carrier cycles forward, the trigger is released, and the hammer falls to the sear on the trigger, where if the trigger is pulled it drops again. That's a super basic description of the AR trigger system, but it'll do. One other detail is needed. If the hammer falls before the bolt carrier is all the way forward, you get what's called "hammer follow" where the hammer hits the firing pin without enough energy to ignite the round. That's why auto M16's have auto sears to control hammer timing. OK. That's the basics. Tracking? That means the rate of fire of any specific AR is mechanically controlled by the length of time it takes the bolt carrier to fully cycle back and forward, and the hammer to fall from the locked position (this is called Cyclic Rate). And it is "human" controlled by the length of time it takes to pull, release and pull again the trigger. Still tracking? Bear with me, This is where it get's important. ANYONE, with a little practice can pull an AR trigger faster then the weapon will cycle. Inducing hammer follow is pretty easy. Functionally the cyclic rate of an AR-15 is the Rate of fire, at least for the first magazine. Which means ANYTHING that causes the bolt to cycle faster, violates this law. Lighter buffer? Fires faster. Lighter hammer, or stiffer hammer spring? Fires faster. hunting or competition trigger? You don't want to read the post that details what tuning the gas system does for bolt carrier velocities.Fires faster. No one really talks about that, because no one really shoots at cyclic that much, because it's inaccurate. But there is no provision in that law for faster accurate fire. Just faster then a person could fire without the kit. And that's just an AR. Now every law-abiding gun owner in FL needs to learn the functioning of every firearm type they have to at least the level of detail I just provided for you, and figure out if they have anything that can make it fire faster, because mere possession of such is illegal. Hot ammo and a blowback 9mm? Probably illegal.
This is not "gunsplaining" or "throwing jargon around". You (liberals) made a new FELONY without even knowing what it was. It's probably impossible to actually comply with this law, and it's impossible to enforce it. So they'll pick a few obvious things and say "that's illegal" and not bother with what the law actually says. And once again we have a gun law not being enforced, and not really enforceable, and once again it won't be enough. Folks will be calling for more laws they don't understand and can't articulate soon enough. And people like me will be decried for being unwilling to compromise with people who are, quite literally, spouting gibberish.
Later in the thread I mentioned kits like a Zev trigger for Glocks, or a Sig Short Reset Trigger kit. Both undoubtedly make you able to fire the weapon faster. There's been no clarification from FL Legislature on any of this yet.
Also, the dozen or so leftists I'm Facebook Friends with have yet to chime in on this particular law, or why *expletive deleted*it like this makes us unwilling to "compromise"
