Bump stock ruling could trigger booming rapid-fire marketplace
thehill.com
If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices. The Trump administrati…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15645865

If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices.

The Trump administration, in a rare break from gun rights groups, quickly banned bump stocks after the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert that was the deadliest in U.S. history. In the ensuing years, gun rights groups challenged the underlying rationale that bump stocks are effectively machine guns — culminating in a legal fight now before the Supreme Court.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 年前

    Not too surprised by this, the law says one shot per trigger pull so neither of the devices technically violate that rule.

    That law doesn’t say that. It says this:

    "by a single function of the trigger. "

    And this is where the legal arguments are sitting in court. Is the “single function”:

    • the action of the operator moving their finger, causing the trigger to be moved

    or

    • the trigger releasing the sear to cause the hammer/bolt to drop, and then resetting

    Various courts have ruled if the written rule means the first or the second. Under a single definition bump stocks would be allowed, on the other, they are not allowed.