The supreme court has struck down the federal ban on bump stocks as of 6/14/24

I can only surmise that supreme court justices have been bribed by the gun industry. For shame.
Bump stocks effectively turn semi-auto rifles into full auto weapons. In 2017 the insane Vas Vegas shooter used these devices to kill 60 and wound 400 people at a music festival.

Bump stocks have NOTHING to do with home/personal protection. The only use for such devices is for mass shootings and criminals. Call/write your congress people and demand the ban on bump stocks be reinstated.

Join/donate to a gun safety group today:

The Brady Campaign:
https://www.bradyunited.org/

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence:
https://www.csgv.org/

Everytown for Gun Safety:
https://www.everytown.org/about-everytown/

Giffords PAC:
https://giffords.org/

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JSul3 · 70-79

This was a case of a Trump DOJ classification decision being overturned by the court....the Supreme Court.

That is why Congress must do their job and pass laws that the vast majority of American's support....but the Party of Trump has no desire to govern, just take orders from their Orange Messiah....example: border bill, they were for it before Trump told them "NO!!!"

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@JSul3 Excuse me, but Trump had nothing to do with the bump stock ban. It wasn't on his Executive Order. (To bring you up with the rest of the class, Trump's executive orders caused gasoline prices to PLUMMET and gave American the greatest economy of all time.)

In December of 2018, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms designated a bump stock rifle to be fully automatic. That meant it was already illegal by federal law.

In 2024 the Supreme Court, in Garland_v._Cargill, ruled that the bump stock did NOT make the rifle fully automatic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garland_v._Cargill

The term "machinegun" means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.
—Sec. 1 of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (26 U.S.C. § 5845(b))

JSul3 · 70-79

@Reason10.
Trump did not sign an EO, but had his DOJ reclassify the bump stock.

2018: Officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had previously concluded bump stocks were merely a gun accessory or firearm part, not subject to federal regulation, but President Donald Trump called on the Justice Department to outlaw the devices soon after the tragedy.

Justice Department officials told CNN Tuesday they took a “fresh look” at the case law, technology, and the devices and their functionality “in light of modern developments.”

The rule concludes that bump-fire stocks, “slide-fire” devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics all fall within the prohibition on machine guns by allowing a “shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger,” and therefore, they are illegal under federal law.

Reason10 · 70-79, M

@JSul3 Prove that LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP called for the justice department to do ANYTHING. At the time, LEGALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT TRUMP was fixing a disastrous economy Saddam Hussein Obama had vomited on the country. He was busy reining in ISIS (which Obama's policies FINANCED), and bringing peace to the Middle East. Today's Supreme Court (at least the majority) has actually READ the Constitution. And they did the right thing.

JSul3 · 70-79

@Reason10 Can you read?

2018: Officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had previously concluded bump stocks were merely a gun accessory or firearm part, not subject to federal regulation, but

(READ THIS>>>>>>}
President Donald Trump called on the Justice Department to outlaw the devices soon after the tragedy.