Justices reject appeal of federal ban on firearm bump stocks

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to fire rapidly like machine guns.

The justices did not comment in declining to review a lower court-ruling that upheld the ban, which took effect nearly a year ago.

President Donald Trump said that the government would move to ban bump stocks, following a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas in which a gunman attached bump stocks to assault-style rifles he used to shoot concertgoers from his hotel room. By using the devices, which allow shots to be fired more rapidly, the gunman was able to fire more than 1,000 rounds in 11 minutes. Fifty-eight people were killed, and hundreds were injured.

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By MARK SHERMAN
58 minutes ago


Read more: https://apnews.com/36d807ad9ea481fc88c7f679dbfa1857

[sandensea]

1. That's good news, Eugene. Thanks.

A small step in the de-Yemenization of America.

[truthisfreedom]

2. No accessories that reduce accuracy should ever be legal.

[Paladin]

3. Good. (nt)

[Canoe52]

4. Why does the Supreme Court hate America?

[Calista241]

5. Interesting comments from Justice Gorsuch, even though he agreed the case did not merit review:

"The agency used to tell everyone that bump stocks don't qualify as 'machine guns,'" he wrote. "Now it says the opposite. The law hasn't changed, only an agency's interpretation of it. And these days it sometimes seems agencies change their statutory interpretations almost as often as elections change administrations." He wondered why the courts should defer "to such bureaucratic pirouetting."