The Supreme Court has overturned a Trump-era ban on bump stocks…
According to a Fox News report, in a 6-3 ruling, Supreme Court Justices ruled that a bump stock does not transform a firearm into an automatic weapon, striking down a federal rule that banned bump stocks.
“Congress has long restricted access to “‘machinegun[s],'” a category of firearms defined by the ability to “shoot, automatically more than one shot . . . by a single function of the trigger,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote
“Semiautomatic firearms, which require shooters to reengage the trigger for every shot, are not machineguns. This case asks whether a bump stock—an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger (and therefore achieve a high rate of fire)—converts the rifle into a ‘machinegun.’ We hold that it does not,” he wrote.
“We hold that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it cannot fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.’ And, even if it could, it would not do so ‘automatically,'” Thomas wrote.
“ATF therefore exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a Rule that classifies bump stocks as machineguns,” he said.
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