Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre
A Texas gun shop owner challenged the ban, arguing the Justice Department wrongly classified the accessories as illegal machine guns.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration did not follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks after a gunman in Las Vegas attacked a country music festival with assault rifles in 2017.
The 6-3 majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas said a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock is not an illegal machine gun because it doesn’t make the weapon fire more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger.
“A bump stock merely reduces the amount of time that elapses between separate functions of the trigger,” Thomas wrote in an opinion that contained multiple drawings of guns’ firing mechanisms.
The Biden administration said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives made the right choice for the gun accessories, which can allow weapons to fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute.
Under Republican President George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama, the ATF decided that bump stocks didn’t transform semiautomatic weapons into machine guns.
The plaintiff, Texas gun shop owner and military veteran Michael Cargill, was represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a group funded by conservative donors like the Koch network.
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I live in the town where most bump stocks were made. After the ban they closed down and a lot of jobs were lost. I wonder if they’ll try to come back.
I believe this is the right court decision. People try to make everything partisan, but you can't just make up laws at will.
I have no issue with bump stocks being banned. The issue is it has be done legally.
Really nice to just see people saying sane things out in the wild. They are not so easily found on other platforms, I seem to recall.
The issue is largely moot since the invention of Hellfire Triggers anyway.
I am surprised that are not in violation of one of the different laws. I agree with the court, this is an action of congress.
@wintermute_oregon Bump stocks should never have been banned lol
@wintermute_oregon #MAGA rarely pays attention to these sorts of things but it's funny that the #Trump administration brought in the bump stock ban and the #JoeBiden administration got rid of them
(Yes I know the president doesn't control the #SupremeCourt, but still)
Joe Biden had nothing to do with the ban removed. The lawsuit was filed by a gun store in Texas and worked its way up through the Supreme Court.