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In the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, much of the political world’s attention was trained on the rifle accessory known as a bump stock. The Las Vegas shooter had 12 rifles fitted with the device which allowed him to shoot his weapons as though they were full auto. Even the NRA had called for greater regulation of the devices. But many in the liberal media, as demonstrated by CNN’s Inside Politics panel on Sunday, questioned if it meant anything and whined that gun control wasn’t advancing fast enough.
Host John King seemed excited by the fact that House Speaker Paul Ryan was open to the idea of having some form of regulation on bump stocks. “The NRA's position, the Trump administration can handle this administratively, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms can issue a new regulation that makes the stocks illegal, let's not have new legislation. Democrats say, oh, no, let's get this on the books,” he added.
But The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian fretted that an ATF regulation would just be removed later. “The only reason to be really afraid of the law at this point would be that it is going to be – potentially create momentum for the people that are pro-gun control to say: “Look, we’ve got something.” Because it has been years since they have had any sort of a win on that,” she seemed to lament.
She proceeded to rattle off most of the gun control proposals liberals have been itching to get into place to restrict the Second Amendment:
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