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.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world
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    2 年前

    What part of “Shall not be infringed” do lawmakers not understand?

    Hopefully we go after the Firearm Owners Protection act next and make full auto legal again (here is a hint in never should have been illegal in the first place).