The Supreme Court just took up a challenge to ATF's bump stock ban
The case invites unelected justices to decide whether bump stocks shoot multiple bullets automatically or whether by "bumping" the trigger against a finger they aren't technically machine guns
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court granted the government’s petition for writ of certiorari in the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s challenge to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) bump stock ban. If the Court upholds the Fifth Circuit’s invalidation of the bump stock ban, it could have huge implications for Congress’s future…
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