U.S. Supreme Court again spurns challenge to gun ‘bump stock’ ban
BY PGF
2 years ago
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away another challenge to a federal ban imposed under former President Donald Trump on devices called “bump stocks” that enable a semi-automatic weapon to fire like a machine gun.
The justices declined to review an appeal by a group of firearms dealers and individuals in Minnesota, Texas and Kentucky after a lower court rejected their argument that the government had violated the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment “takings clause” by effectively taking their private property without just compensation.
Trump’s administration moved to reclassify bump stocks as machine guns, which are forbidden under U.S. law, in a rare firearms control measure prompted by a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court in 2019 declined to block the ban from going into effect. The justices last month rejected appeals by a Utah gun lobbyist and firearms rights groups of lower court rulings upholding the ban as a reasonable interpretation of a federal law prohibiting machine gun possession.
Having banned the bump stock, now the BATF is coming for arm braces. Next, it’ll be the six-position AR stock. If this isn’t stopped, gunstocks of every kind will be outlawed by fiat. Perhaps you say that’s ridiculous? But if we’re playing chess and not checkers, it sounds like a “reasonable” pathway to outlawing rifles altogether.
To quote WoG, “And thanks again, Donald.”
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On November 15, 2022 at 2:53 am, Rick said:
It could very well be, Thanks, Diane F., or, Thanks, pedo puddingcup. Trump didn’t think this on his own; he was goaded by the usual suspects.
The blame sits with the court. I suppose the justices have thought they’ve given enough to gun owners for the time being. That is a political thing to say. But why not?, the court has been recitcent for decades to consider individual rights.