Supreme Court Refuses to Block Ban on Bump Stocks

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block a Trump administration initiative banning bump stocks, the attachments that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire in sustained, rapid bursts.

The court’s action, in a one-sentence order, means that the regulation will remain in force while challenges to it move forward in the courts.

The regulation, which went into effect on Tuesday, bans the sale or possession of the devices, which were used by a gunman to massacre 58 people and wound hundreds of others at a Las Vegas concert in October 2017. Under the regulation, Americans who own bump stocks have 90 days to destroy their devices or to turn them in to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Bump stocks work by harnessing a firearm’s recoil energy to slide it back and forth to bump against a squeezed trigger, so that it keeps firing without any need to pull the trigger again. The Justice Department has said this transforms semiautomatic weapons into fully automatic machine guns, which Congress has sharply restricted.


Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/supreme-court-bump-stocks.html

[sandensea]

1. The Freudian implications of a bump stock are too long to list.

They don't call these people gun humpers for nothing.

[Hoyt]

2. Bump Stocks are more evidence of how sick gun-lovers are. Time to stop coddling them and

their perverted interpretation of the 2nd Amendment and all things gunz.

[groundloop]

3. Yes, and their ONLY use is mass murder

Yet I'm positive that we'll be hearing about loss of 2nd amendment freedoms by this ruling.

[riversedge]

4. #neveragain.