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WASHINGTON — Gun shops are selling bump stocks again in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi after federal regulators failed to appeal a ruling that lifted a ban imposed after a Las Vegas rampage ...
The last “legal” bump stock is set to be given back to the owner this month after the Biden administration lost on its latest gun control effort.
District Court Orders ATF to Return NCLA Client’s Bump Stock After Supreme Court Win Clark Aposhian v. Merrick Garland, et al.
ATF issued a Final Rule in 2018 defining semi-automatic firearms equipped with bump stocks as “machineguns,” which federal law prohibits. The rule required Mr. Aposhian—and every other bump ...
The ruling that ATF’s rule to ban bump stocks was related to the near-100-year-old ban on machine guns. President Trump’s ATF felt it made a rifle be too much like a machine gun.
Things changed for the ATF a mere five months later. In March 2018, the Justice Department proposed to amend the ATF’s regulations to define bump stocks as machine guns under federal law.
Multiple GOP lawmakers advocated for bump stocks to be banned at the time, though then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., ultimately pushed for the ATF to take action rather than Congress, and bump ...
Senator Lindsey Graham has vowed to block efforts to expedite proposed legislation banning bump stocks, despite past support for restrictions.
U.S. Supreme Court delivered decisive ruling on classification of bump stocks and expands court's view of gun owners' rights. Read more here.