A custom Bump Fire Systems-equipped AR. (Photo: Facebook/TracerX)
Bump Fire Systems has agreed to back out of the bump fire market for now, according to an agreement between Bump Fire Systems and their main competitor, Slide Fire Solutions. Slide Fire Solutions filed a lawsuit against Bump Fire Solutions back in 2014, claiming patent infringement.
“Slide Fire Solutions, LP is pleased to announce the resolution to the patent infringement suit with Bump Fire Systems, LLC, reports the Firearm Blog. “As part of the agreement, Bump Fire Systems, LLC acknowledges the validity of patents possessed by Slide Fire Solutions, LP, and agrees to a judgement under which they will no longer infringe on the patents in question”
“It is great to have another instance of verification as the sole patent holder of bump fire technology. We are eager to put this situation behind us, and look forward to continuing to expand our product line in the future.”
Bump Fire Systems has updated their website with the following message. “Slide Fire Solutions, LP and Bump Fire Systems, LLC announced that they have resolved their patent infringement lawsuit. Pursuant to their agreement, Bump Fire Systems, LLC pays a confidential sum of money to Slide Fire, acknowledges the validity of four patents asserted in the litigation and agrees to a judgement under which it must cease and desist from any further sales of bump fire stocks for the duration of the terms of the patents.”
Both companies make — or made, in Bump Fire Systems’ case — bump fire stocks. Bump fire stocks allow users to simulate full-auto fire, even though the guns stay semi-automatic. They work by using recoil to manually reset the trigger while the user pulls the gun forward. Every time the shooter pulls the gun forward they simultaneously pull the trigger. The gun fires, recoils and resets the trigger, and around and around it goes until all the ammo’s gone.
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With a little practice it’s easy to manage controlled bursts making these popular accessories for rifles at ranges across America. True full-auto rifles are rare, heavily regulated and can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Bump fire stocks are a vastly cheaper and easier alternative for ARs and AKs.
Relatively speaking, anyway. Slide Fire Solutions’ bump fire stocks are up there with high-quality precision rifle stocks, and while they add a pretty nifty feature, they’re expensive for what you get. Bump Fire Systems wanted to change that.
When Bump Fire Systems hit the market they brought with them a very similar product but at a fraction of the price. They quickly became a popular, if less-known alternative, selling bump fire stocks for as little as $99.
If anyone thought it was too good to be true, apparently, it was.
Still, it’s not like Slide Fire Solutions is the only company with a way to make guns shoot fast. Companies like Tac Con and Franklin Armory have figured out other ways to send lead downrange fast and legally. Tac Con has their 3MR “positive reset” trigger that uses energy from the action to deliver a kind of internal bump fire mechanism, and Franklin Armory has their Binary Firing System which — legally — fires a second shot upon the release of the trigger.
These alternatives, however, don’t have the same budget-friendly appeal that Bump Fire Systems corralled. It’ll take some time before these patents give way to bargain-basement competition.
So where in the hell is Donald Trump on sielencers and bump stocks now???
I Know personally he would ban all today no difference between him and decommio or rest of new york dems on 2nd…lets convince him that any action against the Second Amendment is a loser for him and America
My Slide Fire stock is great. However, I had to put it away until I can find a range that will allow me to use it.
WOW! Somebody help me out here! I don’t watch TV & if it ever did make it to the small screen I missed it. If it was on the internet, I didn’t see it there either. Are you saying that the nut case in Orlando was using a firearm equipped with slide fire stock? If so then this would fit into a long-since established pattern that goes back to Oswald! A sexually messed up loner, using a controversial weapon, obtained in a (governmentally) frowned upon way unleashes hell upon the unsuspecting innocent. The Feds are warned ahead of time but for some unknown reason drop the ball . . . How convenient!
While I think if someone wants to blow this year’s vacation fund through his carbine in a couple of hours, it’s strictly his business, the hard-of-thinking have noticed all the reviews of Bump-Fire stocks, Franklin 2-for-1 trigger groups and decided we’re to blame for the carnage when a guy with anger issues walks into a bar with three or four full mags.
The thing is, the guy who sold Siddiqui his semi-auto weapon and all the goodies sensed his customer was a secret squirrel, told the FBI of his misgivings, but the same Obama administration who wants all your guns for a bonfire decided it’d be politically incorrect to give Omar Mateen Siddiqui a little extra covert surveillance. The results speak for themselves.
I was going to say something about the simulated full-auto stuff, but it wouldn’t make a difference if you guys tested guns you had to cock like crossbows between shots, the jerkoffs in the Democratic National Convention would still want to take them away.
Truer words were never spoken
I hope people wake up after that speech and realize what we WILL lose if she is elected !
Wow can you sure get things wrong, the gun shop that was suspicious refused to sale him anything. They did contact authorities but a couple of small problems. They failed to obtain a name, tag number and no video. If you want to blame the government try to get your information from legit sources.