Gun Control & RKBA

The Trump bump stock ban essentially classified bump stocks as machine guns, which are subject to NFA registration. (They’re not machine guns by any stretch of the imagination so that EO will likely be overturned eventually, but that’s a different thread for a different time.)

For Biden to ‘ban’ assault weapons via EO, he would have to classify them as something falling under the NFA or another existing law. What would work? I can’t think of anything.

And really, it seems like an AW ban is a lot of political capital to spend to get such a small return. All rifles — including ‘assault weapons’ — account for just 3% of gun crime. If we were serious about banning something to reduce gun violence, we would be talking about banning handguns.