US Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump Rapid-Fire Bump Stock Ban – By Charles Kim (Newsmax) / Jan 6, 2023
On Friday, a 16-member federal court of appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, struck down former President Donald Trump’s 2018 ban on rifle bump stocks.
The ban was instituted by Trump in 2018 after a 64-year-old man opened fire on a crowd in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2017, from his high-rise casino hotel suite killing 58 people attending a country music concert.
The ban classified the bump stock attachment, which allows multiple rounds to be fired in a short amount of time by using a semi-automatic rifle’s recoil to reload the chamber and reset the trigger for the next shot, as a machine gun, which has been banned since 1968.
Gun owners challenged the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ban, and the administration of President Joe Biden has continued defending it in court.
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