Schumer Blames the NRA for the ATF Not Banning Bump Stocks

EXCERPT:

SCHUMER: "My Republican friends face a simple choice. Do something real on guns or please the N.R.A. Doing both is impossible. The N.R.A.’s number one goal is to make sure nothing meaningful on gun safety ever happens. When there are national issues, when there’s horrible shootings, they make a feign like they might try to do something but then they pull right back because they want nothing to be done. As an example, after the shooting in Las Vegas, senators tried to do something here in the Senate about bump stocks, the modification that allowed the perpetrator to automatically fire his arsenal of assault weapons. The N.R.A. and many Republicans said they would be willing to work on it. But then what? The N.R.A. pushed the weakest possible measure, a simple review of the issue by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms which had already said they can’t do anything about the bill. And then what happened? Nothing."