U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Trump-Era Bump Stock Ban

In an interesting turn of events, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal regulation banning bump stocks on firearms. The rule was originally passed in 2018 by former President Donald Trump (later supported by the Biden administration) and published by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). With the ruling overturned last week, Second Amendment advocates can once again legally purchase and own firearms with bump stocks. If you’re in the market for a new firearm or accessories, be sure to shop small and support local businesses like Jum-Pawn-It Jewelry and Loan!

WHAT ARE BUMP STOCKS AND HOW DO THEY WORK?

Bump stocks allow for a higher rate of fire by enabling the shooter to use the gun’s recoil to reset the trigger faster than the shooter could manually. Simply put: bump stocks enable semiautomatic weapons to rapid fire like machine guns.

Prior to 2018, bump stocks were legally marketed and sold as accessories for semiautomatic rifles. They were seen as accessories that did not fundamentally alter the classification of a firearm. However, the 2017 Las Vegas shooting prompted a reevaluation of their legality. As a result, a ruling was passed in December 2018 which re-classified semiautomatic firearms with a bump stock to a machine gun; making its sale, possession, and use illegal under federal law.

GARLAND V. CARGILL EXPLAINED

In the case of Garland v. Cargill, the Supreme Court deliberated on the legality of bump stocks (aka devices that modify semiautomatic weapons to simulate automatic fire). One of the primary issues was whether or not bump stocks transform a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. Bump stocks enable a weapon to fire continuously by harnessing the gun’s recoil, allowing for rapid-fire without manual trigger pulls for each shot.

Michael Cargill is a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas. He challenged Garland (Attorney General) and the 2018 bump stock ban, claiming that U.S. agencies failed to properly interpret a law banning machine guns and illegitimately extended the ban to apply to semiautomatic firearms with bump stocks. In a 6-3 ruling, authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the justices upheld a lower court’s decision to side with Cargill. Liberal justices dissented, however, the conservative justices were in the majority.

Long story short: BUMP STOCKS ARE BACK!!

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