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Posted on 11/03/2023 2:47:01 PM PDT by CFW
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a case involving the Trump-era ban on "bump stocks" that was initiated in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
The justices agreed to hear arguments early next year over the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) rule, which was implemented in 2017. The case pertains to whether the Department of Justice, which oversees the ATF, followed federal law in changing the regulation around bump stocks, which are able to increase the rate of fire in some semiautomatic weapons.
Federal appeals courts have come to different decisions on whether the ATF regulation defining a bump stock as a machine gun accords with federal law. In 2010, under the Obama administration, the agency found that a bump stock should not be classified as a machine gun and therefore should not be banned under federal law.
A 1986 federal law prohibits Americans from owning fully automatic weapons or parts that are used to convert other firearms into automatic weapons, although some exceptions were made to fully automatic firearms produced before May 1986. The ATF in 2018 said that bump stocks fall under the regulation of the 1986 law.
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Trump signed this for our own good. #Winning
A government that is that afraid of it’s own people needs to think really hard on what it’s doing wrong.
“bump stocks, which are able to increase the rate of fire in some semiautomatic weapons.”
Nonsense. The author of this article has no idea how firearms or bump stocks work.
Trump has some blame for this.
But also, Sessions, the great “conservative” was the Attorney General who proposed this.
Isn’t that a requirement for reporters?
Was the Las Vegas shooting staged in part for this?
We have split circuits about the power of the ATF to do this via a rule change. The Supreme Court has been taking power away from the bureaucrats, and that is what this case is about.
Trump, in effect, prevent a bump stock ban from becoming law. Hard to know if it is what he intended.
Ping!
Re: 5 - President Trump gets all of the blame for this.
He’s the President. Bump stocks being banned doesn’t go anywhere without him getting the ball rolling.
And he’s never stepped back from his decision, AFAIK.
It was staged to get the hearing protection law scuttled. It was, in some circles of thought, pretty much a done deal until this happened. I believe that was its purpose because after the level of carnage inflicted no one wanted to touch pro gun legislation.
I don’t care about bump stocks, but I want this overturned.
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The SC needs to roll several cases into one, the unconstitutional AW and “high cap magazine” bans, the bump stock rule and the pistol brace rule among them.
I knew a guy who could empty an AK 30 round mag in a matter of seconds using his index finger. Was his index finger a bannable device?
How does any of this jive with “shall not be infringed”?
Everything back to and including the GCA of 1934 needs to go.
I never thought I would, but I could use a pistol brace now that I’m older and weak
yes, among other things
Trump iS a new yorker. I seriously doubt he knows the difference between automatic and semi-automatic fire beyond his advisors and what he’s seen in movies.
While they are at it, rule on the unconstitutionality of the requirement for the $200 tax and ATF permission for a suppressor.
“when the people fear the government, you have tyranny.When the government fears the people, you have freedom.”
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