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That's a violation of the US Constitution in not one, but two places. Ex post facto is such a heinous practice the Constitution brings it up twice. Think about that for a second. How many other things are specifically brought up more than once?
US Constitution Article 1 Section 9: "...No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed...."
US Constitution Article 1 Section 10: "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility."
Except that is not what they are "doing"... They are classifying bump stocks and crank triggers as machine guns and as such, they are under the same rules as machine guns. And since its a machine gun and cant be registered as per the Hughes amendment you have an illegal item. Their argument is these things have been machine guns all along and we just didn't know it, They have always been illegal and were only sold because we didn't know they were machine guns.
The example I would give is DIAS... You have something that was legal until they decided it was a machine gun.... Now its illegal and you best not have one. Same basic thing.
Do I agree with it? No... Of course not. Its bat crap crazy and has no basis in reality
But that is how they will get around a Constitutional argument.