Contact the NRA

[Justin]

NRA is playing the best game they can after being dealt a terrible hand.

Asking ATF for a review of the regs is probably the smartest move they can make at this point.

1.) It will take time for the ATF to conduct a review, which will hopefully give all involved parties time to cool down.

2.) For once, the fact that federal regulators aren't beholden to voters is probably a good thing. The politicians are going to do whatever their constituents/lobbyists/the media demand, meanwhile the ATF is beholden to their own regulatory requirements.

3.) What the ATF can potentially do is much more limited than what congress can do. Congress can pass a law mandating nearly anything, and even if it's a straight up constitutional violation getting it changed or repealed would take millions of dollars and decades of lawsuits.

4.) Since ATF is limited, the best they can probably do is to reclassify bump stocks as an NFA item so anyone who wants one will have to pay a $200 transfer tax. A $200 tax on a niche item no one really wants is a small price to pay after this particular cluster of a situation.