I don't know enough about it either but from what little I do know I would say it's a positive step that is also meaningless at the same time and has no effect on self defense at all.
So it does in fact have some meaning as you yourself say it makes something easier.
While I own a gun, I'm not a huge gun guy. IDGAF what they want to do with bump stocks, but banning them really doesn't do anything. First, people could easily get one illegally, but that would be irrelevant because they can achieve the same exact thing without owning a bump stock. Banning these is merely symbolic. I get more frustrated with stuff like this because I deal with similar issues (not having anything to do with guns) professionally too often. There's this undying need to fix things that we humans possess, which isn't a bad thing. The problem is that we often try to engage in interventions that do little more than treat our own anxiety about something irrespective as to whether or not it even works. But as long as our anxiety about something is kept in check by our superficial interventions, we feel better.
