Bump Stock Innovator Inspired by People Who ‘Love Full Auto’
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Bump Stock Innovator Inspired by People Who ‘Love Full Auto’
He sent a production model to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and, in June 2010, received a letter in response saying
that the company’s bump stock product “is a firearm part and is not regulated as a firearm under the Gun Control Act or the National Firearms Act.”
The letter noted that the stock “has no automatically functioning mechanical parts or springs and performs no automatic mechanical function when installed.” It also mentioned
that Mr. Cottle’s letter had described the bump stock as “intended to assist persons whose hands have limited mobility to ‘bump-fire’ an AR-15 type rifle.”
declined to comment on Thursday.
Mr. Cottle did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but said in an interview with Ammoland last year
that highly regulated firearms like machine guns require “a mountain of paperwork sure to give you life-threatening paper cuts.”
But bump stocks, he said, can help a semiautomatic firearm recreate the adrenaline-inducing power of an automatic weapon.
The National Rifle Association said in a statement on Thursday
that it “believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
Slide Fire — which boasts on its website that it “revolutionized recreational shooting” — soon ran out of stock and stopped taking orders.
Interest in his products, and in similar stocks from other companies, suddenly surged after Sunday when Stephen Paddock, equipped with a small arsenal of weapons
that included a dozen rifles outfitted with bump stocks, massacred dozens of people and injured hundreds in Las Vegas.
“We literally made our first million in a doghouse,” Mr. Cottle told The Albany News of Texas in 2011.
He sent a production model to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and, in June 2010, received a letter in response saying
that the company’s bump stock product “is a firearm part and is not regulated as a firearm under the Gun Control Act or the National Firearms Act.”
The letter noted that the stock “has no automatically functioning mechanical parts or springs and performs no automatic mechanical function when installed.” It also mentioned
that Mr. Cottle’s letter had described the bump stock as “intended to assist persons whose hands have limited mobility to ‘bump-fire’ an AR-15 type rifle.”
declined to comment on Thursday.
Mr. Cottle did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but said in an interview with Ammoland last year
that highly regulated firearms like machine guns require “a mountain of paperwork sure to give you life-threatening paper cuts.”
But bump stocks, he said, can help a semiautomatic firearm recreate the adrenaline-inducing power of an automatic weapon.
The National Rifle Association said in a statement on Thursday
that it “believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
Slide Fire — which boasts on its website that it “revolutionized recreational shooting” — soon ran out of stock and stopped taking orders.
Interest in his products, and in similar stocks from other companies, suddenly surged after Sunday when Stephen Paddock, equipped with a small arsenal of weapons
that included a dozen rifles outfitted with bump stocks, massacred dozens of people and injured hundreds in Las Vegas.
“We literally made our first million in a doghouse,” Mr. Cottle told The Albany News of Texas in 2011.