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Supreme Court overturns Trump-era ban on bump stocks
NY Post ^ | 06/14/2024 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 06/14/2024 7:49:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a ban on bump stocks — attachments that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly — implemented by President Donald Trump in 2017 was unconstitutional.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had overstepped its authority by classifying bump stocks as illegal machine guns.

“We conclude that semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ [sic],” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority, “because it does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.'”

“Even if a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock could fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger,'” Thomas went on, “it would not do so ‘automatically.'”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bump; stocks; supremecourt; trump
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Good news for once
1 posted on 06/14/2024 7:49:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sanity prevails.


2 posted on 06/14/2024 7:51:12 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow!

It only took seven years!


3 posted on 06/14/2024 7:53:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Supreme Court overturns DEMOCRAT ban on bump stocks. FIFY


4 posted on 06/14/2024 7:54:56 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The BATFags will just ignore the ruling. “How many divisions does the SCOTUS have?”


5 posted on 06/14/2024 7:56:44 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: oil_dude

Are you calling Trump a Democrat? The Trump administration did this. I remember it well.


6 posted on 06/14/2024 8:02:10 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My AR can finally come out of the closet!


7 posted on 06/14/2024 8:04:15 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Jonny7797
From Trump’s Executive Order Banning Bump Stocks, February 20, 2018

“Today, I am directing the Department of Justice to dedicate all available resources to complete the review of the comments received, and, as expeditiously as possible, to propose for notice and comment a rule banning all devices that turn legal weapons into machineguns.”

Trump also supported red flag laws which are contrary to the Second Amendment:

“We must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms and that, if they do, those firearms can be taken by rapid due process," *** "That is why I have called for red flag laws, also known as extreme risk protection orders." Trump, August 5, 2019

8 posted on 06/14/2024 8:06:30 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: ComputerGuy

I have binary triggers on several of my firearms. One with both a brace and a binary trigger.


9 posted on 06/14/2024 8:12:48 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: thegagline

I think he has learned. That was his Manhattan side.


10 posted on 06/14/2024 8:13:30 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: oil_dude
Supreme Court overturns DEMOCRAT ban on bump stocks. FIFY

Nice try at attempting to rewrite history.

“Presidential Memorandum on the Application of the Definition of Machinegun to “Bump Fire” Stocks and Other Similar Devices” Issued on: February 20, 2018 by Trump

11 posted on 06/14/2024 8:14:18 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: Codeflier
Trump also reached out to Diane Feinstein to revive a full assault weapon ban legislation as well, but then backed off because Democrats were hounding him over everything he did.

Trump suggests assault weapons ban, then pulls back

12 posted on 06/14/2024 8:16:34 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Reno89519

I’ve never tried one of those triggers. I’ll check them out. I’m gonna break out my SlideFire this afternoon and bust some caps for old times’ sake.


13 posted on 06/14/2024 8:17:14 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I remember the video of him suggesting banning all sorts of firearms. Was an early indication that he would eventually participate in COVID shutdowns.


14 posted on 06/14/2024 8:22:21 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We desperately need to close down illegal, destructive agencies like aeeeteeef. The employees can be reassigned to constitutional duties like helping guard the border.

Second, we need a thorough reform of judicial processes. An obviously unconstitutional regulation or law should be overruled within 7 days and NOT TAKE 7 damned Years to clean off the books! That’s 7 years deprivation of American citizens’ liberty. “Justice delayed is justice denied.”Gladstone


15 posted on 06/14/2024 8:27:25 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The sneaky bastards of Bidens ATF worded the bump stocks rule to mean EVERY firearm with a pistol grip to be used as a rifle.

This would ban AR15’s (and that entire center-fire, grip family), pistol grips on shotguns as well as the conversion kits as implied.


16 posted on 06/14/2024 8:28:30 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“It would not do so ‘automatically.’”

I can’t wrap my head around this. What?!


17 posted on 06/14/2024 8:31:23 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: cowboyusa
I think he has learned. That was his Manhattan side.

Manhattan side? That’s a new one. Is that the same side that caused him to donate thousands of dollars to Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Cuomo?

18 posted on 06/14/2024 8:32:04 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline

“Is that the same side that caused him to donate thousands of dollars to Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Cuomo?”

Yes. If he wanted to do business in New York City, he had to buy off the right people, as he said.


19 posted on 06/14/2024 8:36:33 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Codeflier

Don’t be a fool. The Swamp was rogue during DJT’s term. Just look at Brix’s admission that she openly defied and then reversed all DJT’s decisions on the vax. And, the Joint Chief’s admission that he consulted with CCP.

That something happened does not mean everyone standing around was culpable.


20 posted on 06/14/2024 8:44:44 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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