Clarence Thomas writes Supreme Court decision overturning Trump's bump stock ban
6 months, 1 week ago

Clarence Thomas writes Supreme Court decision overturning Trump's bump stock ban

Raw Story  

The Supreme Court legalized Bump stocks on Friday in a landmark ruling. Donald Trump's administration classified that bump stocks make a semi-automatic gun a machine gun, which is illegal in the U.S. But, according to Clarence Thomas who was writing for the majority, bump stock guns require that the trigger still be held to continue firing — thus it still takes the shooter's effort. “A bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does,” he wrote in his opinion. “Even with a bump stock, a semiautomatic rifle will fire only one shot for every ‘function of the trigger.’” The ruling declared the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority with the ban by declaring it makes legal semi-automatic weapons into illegal machine guns.

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"Gun extremists have a dream ticket": JD Vance brags about "Mamaw's" huge gun stash in RNC speech
5 months ago

"Gun extremists have a dream ticket": JD Vance brags about "Mamaw's" huge gun stash in RNC speech

Salon  

MILWAUKEE — Sen. JD Vance – Trump’s pick for vice-president who once mused about getting rid of the ATF and called Democrats’ efforts to ban bump stocks “a huge distraction” – is getting rave reviews from firearm groups as he debuts at the RNC. “I think it’s important we don’t get so caught up in this particular moment that we …

Clarence Thomas has a bump-stock death wish for Americans
6 months ago

Clarence Thomas has a bump-stock death wish for Americans

Raw Story  

In 2017, a man with bump stock-enhanced rifles perched himself at a Las Vegas hotel window, trained his crosshairs on thousands of concert-goers below and murdered 60 people. Last week, Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the radicalized 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court, overturned the ban, claiming that, “a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a machine …

Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks for rifles after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban
6 months ago

Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks for rifles after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would have outlawed bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on the rapid-fire gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history. “It won’t pass because enough people in this building still believe in the Constitution, and the Constitution affords Americans the right to own a …

Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court just made it easier to massacre Americans
6 months ago

Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court just made it easier to massacre Americans

LA Times  

A bump stock, which allows a more rapid rate of fire, is shown attached to a semiautomatic rifle at a gun store. The owner of that business sued to make these “accessories” legal again, saying the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went too far in banning the sale of bump stocks. In a concurring opinion for the …

Supreme Court bump stocks ruling: Clarence Thomas seems fine with supercharging deadly weapons.
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court bump stocks ruling: Clarence Thomas seems fine with supercharging deadly weapons.

Slate  

A bump stock is an attachment that converts a semi automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire as many as 800 rounds per minute - an intensity of gunfire matched by machine guns. On Friday, the US Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era bump stock ban introduced in the wake of that tragedy, in which 60 people were killed …

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly says Buffalo supermarket killer used a bump stock
6 months, 1 week ago

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly says Buffalo supermarket killer used a bump stock

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. “Exactly one month ago, we marked the anniversary of the deadly Buffalo massacre — the horrific day when a hate-fueled gunman murdered ten of our neighbors, using a bump stock to transform his firearm into an even deadlier weapon,” Hochul’s …

Trump once defied the NRA to ban bump stocks. He now says he ‘did nothing’ to restrict guns
6 months, 1 week ago

Trump once defied the NRA to ban bump stocks. He now says he ‘did nothing’ to restrict guns

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. He announced that he had told the National Rifle Association that “bump stocks are gone,” arguing they “turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.” On Friday, Trump’s campaign to return to the White House defended a Supreme Court decision to strike down his own ban on those devices. But he …

What to know about bump stocks and the Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the gun accessory
6 months, 1 week ago

What to know about bump stocks and the Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on the gun accessory

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a ban on bump stocks, the gun accessory used in the deadliest shooting in modern American history — a Las Vegas massacre that killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. Justice Samuel Alito, who joined the majority, wrote in a separate opinion that the Las Vegas shooting strengthened the case for …

Clarence Thomas’ Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible
6 months, 1 week ago

Clarence Thomas’ Opinion Legalizing Bump Stocks Is Indefensible

Slate  

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority carved a huge loophole into the federal prohibition against machine guns on Friday, striking down a bump stock ban first enacted in 2018 by the Trump administration. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained in dissent, the supermajority flouts the “ordinary meaning” of the law, adopting an “artificially narrow” interpretation that will have “deadly consequences.” This Supreme …

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks, gun accessories used in 2017 Vegas massacre

Hindustan Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The high court found 6-3 the Trump administration did not follow federal law when it reversed course and banned bump stocks after …

Supreme Court Overturns Federal Bump Stock Ban
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Overturns Federal Bump Stock Ban

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court Friday overturned a federal agency’s rule banning bump stocks, the devices used in some of America’s deadliest mass killings carried out by lone shooters. A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle is a machinegun because with a single pull of the trigger, a shooter can fire continuous shots without any human input beyond maintaining forward pressure.” The …

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw firearms back into the nation’s political spotlight. The high court’s conservative majority found that the Trump administration overstepped when it changed course from predecessors and banned …

Supreme Court strikes down ban on rapid-fire bump stocks like those used in Las Vegas mass shooting
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court strikes down ban on rapid-fire bump stocks like those used in Las Vegas mass shooting

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks like those used in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, when 60 people were killed and 500 wounded at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in 2017. “Guns outfitted with bump stocks fire like machine guns, they kill like machine guns, and they should be banned like machine …

Opinion: The Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks
6 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: The Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks

LA Times  

The Supreme Court on Friday invalidated a Trump-era rule prohibiting the use of bump stocks to make semiautomatic rifles more like machine guns. The tragedy in Las Vegas caused the ATF to change its position and deem bump stocks to be prohibited by the statute that outlaws machine guns. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent on Friday, “When …

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks
6 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks

NPR  

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, declaring that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority when it banned the devices. Sponsor Message Writing for the court, Justice Clarence Thomas said that a semi-automatic rifle …

What the Supreme Court decision on bump stocks could mean for guns in the U.S.
6 months, 1 week ago

What the Supreme Court decision on bump stocks could mean for guns in the U.S.

NPR  

What the Supreme Court decision on bump stocks could mean for guns in the U.S. toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the devices that can attach to a semi-automatic rifle to make it fire as fast as a machine gun -- potentially hundreds of rounds a minute. What the court …

Amy Coney Barrett will decide how deadly American weapons can be.
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Amy Coney Barrett will decide how deadly American weapons can be.

Slate  

On Oct. 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on the crowds at a music festival in Las Vegas from the 32nd floor of a hotel across the street. In the terms of a statute, then, a bump stock is a “machinegun.” It’s a “part” that enables a weapon to fire “automatically” with “a single function of the trigger.” The shooter …

How gun accessories called bump stocks ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court
9 months, 3 weeks ago

How gun accessories called bump stocks ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court

Associated Press  

When gun accessories known as bump stocks first hit the market more than a decade ago, the U.S. government initially concluded the devices did not violate federal law despite enabling semi-automatic weapons to spray bullets at the rapid-fire rate of a machine gun. Now a federal ban on bump stocks imposed under then-President Donald Trump is before the U.S. Supreme …

The Supreme Court appears torn about a Trump-era ban on a gun accessory known as bump stocks
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court appears torn about a Trump-era ban on a gun accessory known as bump stocks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared torn Wednesday about a challenge to a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. “Intuitively, I am entirely sympathetic to your argument,” said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, “I think the question …

Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting
1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a Trump era-ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns, violates federal law. The new case is not about the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms,” but rather whether the Trump administration followed federal law in changing the …

Supreme Court to consider challenge to federal bump stock ban
1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court to consider challenge to federal bump stock ban

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court agreed to take up a challenge to the federal ban on bump stocks, devices that essentially allow shooters to fire semiautomatic rifles more rapidly, discharging potentially hundreds of bullets per minute. Under federal law a “machine gun” is interpreted as “any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, …

Supreme Court agrees to rule on whether ATF can ban rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’
1 year, 1 month ago

Supreme Court agrees to rule on whether ATF can ban rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’

LA Times  

A “bump stock” rifle attachment allows a semiautomatic rifle to shoot hundreds of bullets per minute with a single pull of the trigger. The Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on whether the government may ban the sale or use of “bump stocks” that can transform a semiautomatic rifle into one that shoots hundreds of bullets per minute with a …

US appeals court blocks ban on rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’
1 year, 11 months ago

US appeals court blocks ban on rapid-fire ‘bump stocks’

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A Trump administration ban on bump stocks — devices that enable a shooter to rapidly fire multiple rounds from semi-automatic weapons after an initial trigger pull — was struck down Friday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans. “A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close consideration of the mechanics of a semi-automatic firearm, …

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases
2 years, 2 months ago

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. The cases the justices declined to hear were an appeal from a Utah gun rights advocate and another brought by …

Gun advocates fight for bump stocks in latest court hearing
2 years, 3 months ago

Gun advocates fight for bump stocks in latest court hearing

LA Times  

A federal appeals court was told Tuesday that there is no basis in federal law for a Trump administration ban on bump stocks — devices that enable shooters to fire multiple rounds from a semiautomatic weapon with a single trigger pull. At issue is not the 2nd Amendment but whether bump stocks qualify as illegal “machine guns” under federal law. …

Appeals court revives challenge to bump stock ban
2 years, 6 months ago

Appeals court revives challenge to bump stock ban

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A legal challenge to the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks — devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger pull — was revived Thursday by a federal appeals court. The 5th Circuit order came on the same day that the Supreme Court issued a ruling expanding gun …

Court upholds Trump administration’s ban of gun bump stocks
3 years ago

Court upholds Trump administration’s ban of gun bump stocks

Associated Press  

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court in New Orleans is the latest to uphold a federal ban on “bump stocks” — devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger pull. The ban was instituted by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a rule declaring that bump …

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