Bump stock ban update - not the job of the unelected ATF, according to the courts

[Provience]

DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge in Michigan should have blocked a Trump administration ban on bump stocks, a device that allows semiautomatic firearms to fire rapidly, an appeals court said Thursday.




The ban came in response to a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas in which a gunman attached bump stocks to assault-style rifles to shoot concertgoers from his hotel room.

The prohibition came in the form of a regulation from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which treated bump stocks like illegal machine guns. But the court, in a 2-1 decision, said changes in criminal law are up to Congress.

“It is not the role of the executive — particularly the unelected administrative state — to dictate to the public what is right and what is wrong,” said judges Alice Batchelder and Eric Murphy of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court also said a bump stock doesn't qualify as a machine gun.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...y-decision/ar-BB1eYfCP?ocid=spartan-ntp-feeds

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[bigun]

Well those two will be out of a job soon

 

[KungFooMASTA]

So go fishing for them?

 

[spork]

So go fishing for them?

you can have your shoelaces back....

 

[Norm]

The decision comes at the start of gardening season, coincidence

 

[Weasel]

wow that's crazy! As much stupid as happens it's odd when something non stupid happens.