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.
Eh… Washington State banned ALL semi-automatic center-fire rifles this year. Yeah, you read that correctly, all of them. So you can’t even get a rifle, let alone a bump stock.
Where do people keep getting this notion that trump is in favor of gun rights? He’s on record saying that he prefers to take guns away extra-judicially, and his only legislation for firearms was to ban some. He’s a tyrant, and like all tyrants, he does not want an armed populace.