Most importantly, BAFT said bump stocks were legal legal then reversed its position.
Personally, I have no use for a bump stock and think the entire purpose of the ban was to virtue signal by some politicians that they were doing things to humor the gun control mob. It is woke politics.
However, it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the Supreme Court.
Thats where I am as well.
I don’t want to have one.
I want the right to make that choice,
by having the right to want, and to have, one.
Not for its own sake, but for the sake of all other attachments which improve, to the owner’s mind, the function of his weapon.
With the price of ammo, who can afford to use a bump stock other than Ukraine with free government ammo.
Your shoulder can be a bump stock.
“I will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of Bump Stocks! Congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue - I hope! “
Donald Trump, Feb 22, 2018
Firearms Owners Protection Act, with the poisoned Hughes amendment, was in 1986. The National Firearms Act was in 1934. The Gun Control Act was 1968.
None pass even the most basic Constitutional “sniff” test due to the Pre-amble to the Bill of Rights, the text of the 2nd Amendment, the 10th Amendment, and further made unConstitutional by the “privileges and immunities” clause in the 14th Amendment.
As Amendments ratified by the State legislatures, no “incorporation” is required for them to apply in any jurisdiction within the United States and the territories it governs as these are protections for Individual Rights.
Period. Full stop. End of story.
Anyone claiming otherwise has a vested interest in limiting the Rights of We the People... regardless of any excuse they give.
I am surprised the BBC doesn’t have to ask what a gun is.
Bump stocks became known after the Vegas concert massacre.
And there they went, driven by the River of Fear.
I note that only one justice even brought up the 2nd Amendment. Kavenaugh.
Rapid fire rifles are not new.
The old Henry LEVER ACTION Repeating Rifle of 1860 was advertised to shoot SIXTY SHOTS A MINUTE!
Neal Knox, back in the late 1980s found the first planned California AW rifle ban also included lever action rifles.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/682013937292868666/
And the Evans lever action rifle held 26 shots and was advertised at 26 rounds a minute!