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Given the lack of criminality associated with silencers, it is reasonable to conclude that they should not be viewed as a threat to public safety necessitating NFA classification... [More]

But everybody "knows" bump stocks were used because they were found on some of the guns. Besides, people have heard the audio. And all the "news" stories say they were.

And those of us pointing out the inconvenient truths that on-scene ATF personnel were not ALLOWED to examine the firearms for internal components and that no technical examination report has been produced have taken no small amount of heat for being straw-grasping conspiracists. That's despite the fact that our claim is not that they weren't used, which we have no knowledge to make, but that it has not been proven that they were -- yet the rule was issued and is being defended in spite of that.

On the other hand, we have direct sworn testimony showing the initial decision against Akins was political and overrode technical and legal counsel.

But we're the tinfoil kooks because we're looking for the answer to one simple, easy-enough-to-answer question: Why no report?