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    The Bump Stock Inventor Is Shutting His Business Down

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    The Bump Stock Inventor Is Shutting His Business Down

    Bump stock manufacturer Slide Fire Solutions will stop taking orders and shut down its website next month. The closure comes after months of scrutiny caused by the use of a bump stock—an accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire at the rate of an automatic—in the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest in modern American history.

    A lawyer for Slide Fire did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Bump stocks have never been more than niche firearms accessory, although Slide Fire’s sales exceeded $10 million its first year of business. The founder of the company, Jeremiah Cottle, patented the design and defended it in court numerous times, alleging competitors infringed on Slide Fire’s patents. “I built something, and a madman is taking it all away,” Cottle told Bloomberg Businessweek following the Las Vegas shooting.

    President Donald Trump backed a bump stock ban following the attack; Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally proposed such a ban in late March. At the moment, however, shoppers can still purchase bump stocks from Slide Fire and on firearms resale websites such as Gun Broker.

    The end of its business on May 20, which Slide Fire announced in a statement on its website, comes as the company faces litigation related to the Las Vegas attack. A lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court alleges that Slide Fire, along with unidentified bump stock makers and retailers, behaved negligently by producing and selling the devices. The plaintiffs in the case, Devon Prescott, Brooke Freeman and Tasaneeporn Upright, are survivors of the shooting and are seeking class-action status.

    “Whether it was our lawsuit, business realities, or the impending federal regulation against bump stocks that led to this decision, we don’t know yet,” said Avery Gardiner, co-president of the Brady Center, which is representing the plaintiffs alongside the Las Vegas law firm Eglet Prince. “I’m sure in the lawsuit, we’ll learn more about their announcement about closing their website and what they plan to do with their assets.”
    http://fortune.com/2018/04/18/bump-s...ons-shut-down/
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    The plaintiffs in the case, Devon Prescott, Brooke Freeman and Tasaneeporn Upright...
    WTF?

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    Wonder if I can claim a TKO win with @dannno in regards to our wager?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Wonder if I can claim a TKO win with @dannno in regards to our wager?
    This seems to have a lot to do with the lawsuits as well, he will probably sell the patent and let somebody else take on the liability.
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    Quote Originally Posted by phill4paul View Post
    WTF?
    She lives in Vegas, I wonder what she does for a living.
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    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
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    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    She lives in Vegas, I wonder what she does for a living.
    I think she authors baby-name suggestion books.
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    This is getting silly.
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    It started silly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    She lives in Vegas, I wonder what she does for a living.
    Apparently yoga and bar-tending. If she does them simultaneously I'd bet she makes killer tips.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Wonder if I can claim a TKO win with @dannno in regards to our wager?

    Don't bet on it.
    Chris

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    Hawaii tyranny loves a nanny pulpit.
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    Couple song lyrics pop into my head.

    Go on take the money and run.

    You got to know when to hold em,,know when to fold em.

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    Taught me good Lord, Taught me all I know,
    Taught me so well, that I grabbed that gold, and
    I left his dead ass there by the side of the road

    well that last,, maybe


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    “I built something, and a madman is taking it all away,” Cottle told Bloomberg Businessweek following the Las Vegas shooting.
    Maybe he should stick to inventing things that have a legitimate 2nd amendment purpose, like bear traps or bird calls. I hear the duck dynasty guys are doing pretty well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Wonder if I can claim a TKO win with @dannno in regards to our wager?
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.

    What was the bet?
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    The road to hell is paved with good intentions. No need to make it a superhighway.
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    The only way I see Trump as likely to affect any real change would be through martial law, and that has zero chances of success without strong buy-in by the JCS at the very minimum.

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    This belongs here:



    Edit: Of course the next MKULTRA madman will use the rubber band bump fire method and, now Trump having pioneered attempted gun control by executive order, large capacity magazines will be the target because bump firing isn't practical if you have < 10 bullets. Then the next MKULTRA mad man will have 3D printed his own large capacity magazine, so detachable magazine firearms will be banned. You heard it here first.
    Last edited by jmdrake; 04-22-2018 at 07:49 AM.
    9/11 Thermate experiments

    Winston Churchhill on why the U.S. should have stayed OUT of World War I

    "I am so %^&*^ sick of this cult of Ron Paul. The Paulites. What is with these %^&*^ people? Why are there so many of them?" YouTube rant by "TheAmazingAtheist"

    "We as a country have lost faith and confidence in freedom." -- Ron Paul

    "It can be a challenge to follow the pronouncements of President Trump, as he often seems to change his position on any number of items from week to week, or from day to day, or even from minute to minute." -- Ron Paul
    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    The road to hell is paved with good intentions. No need to make it a superhighway.
    Quote Originally Posted by osan View Post
    The only way I see Trump as likely to affect any real change would be through martial law, and that has zero chances of success without strong buy-in by the JCS at the very minimum.



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