Monday brought two steps forward for rational gun policy, one national and one local.

Down in DC, federal Judge Dabney Friedrich denied an injunction against Team Trump’s ban on bump stocks, rejecting plaintiffs’ claims that the ban “smacks of agency abuse” and was the “product of serious, multidimensional legal violations.”

The ban, which the Justice Department issued Dec. 18, goes into effect March 26 — a year and a half after Stephen Paddock used the device in his slaughter of 58 innocents in Las Vegas.

Bump stocks let a trained shooter fire a semiautomatic rifle at nearly full-automatic rates — end-running the decades-old federal ban on machine guns. Once the ban kicks in, owners must destroy them or turn them in at local Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives offices.

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the “red flag” bill, allowing friends and family to seek a temporary restraining order to get firearms out of the hands of deeply troubled individuals. The subject of the order gets a hearing within six days to contest the ruling — after which it can hold for up to a full year.

Progress on this front is coming slower than we’d like, but at least it’s coming.