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Letter: Could Aposhian’s memory be failing?

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah gun rights advocate Clark Aposhian, one of only a handful of Americans who are legally allowed to keep their bump stock, a shooting accessory that alters semi-automatic rifles to fire in quick bursts like a machine gun, demonstrates how it works on an AKM-47 at a gun range in Murray, UT, on Thursday, April 4, 2019. He is challenging the bump stock ban in court, and an appeals court has allowed him to keep his bump stock until his case is resolved in court.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah gun rights advocate Clark Aposhian, one of only a handful of Americans who are legally allowed to keep their bump stock, a shooting accessory that alters semi-automatic rifles to fire in quick bursts like a machine gun, demonstrates how it works on an AKM-47 at a gun range in Murray, UT, on Thursday, April 4, 2019. He is challenging the bump stock ban in court, and an appeals court has allowed him to keep his bump stock until his case is resolved in court.

In the April 8 Tribune article “Gun advocate fights feds over bump stocks,” the chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council claims that he would be willing to follow a bump stock ban if the process was right, but is opposed to President Trump’s current bump stock regulation.

Just a month ago Clark Aposhian testified in a hearing against just such a ban, Rep. Patrice Arent’s HB331, Prohibition of Firearm Modification Devices. In the hearing he claimed that it was in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights because it required him to destroy property he had paid for.

It makes me wonder if the “process” can ever be “right” when the profits of the gun lobby are at stake.

Nancy Farrar Halden, Sandy

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