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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    6 months ago

    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).