Leroy N. Soetoro
2019-04-02 17:35:12 UTC
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-guns/u-s-supreme-court-
refuses-to-block-trumps-gun-bump-stock-ban-idUSKCN1R9230
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President
Donald Trump a victory by rejecting for the second time in three days a
bid by gun rights activists to block his new ban on bump stock
attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly.
The policy, embraced by Trump in the wake of an October 2017 massacre in
Las Vegas in which bump stocks were used, went into effect on Tuesday. The
ban is a rare recent instance of gun control at the federal level in a
country that has experienced a succession of mass shootings.
The court in a brief order refused to grant a temporary stay sought by the
group Gun Owners of America and others in a lawsuit filed in Michigan
challenging the ban while litigation continues. Chief Justice John Roberts
on Tuesday rejected a similar bid to block the policy in a separate legal
challenge brought in Washington by individual gun owners and gun rights
groups including the Firearms Policy Foundation and Florida Carry Inc.
Michael Hammond, Gun Owners of Americas legislative counsel, said many
owners of the estimated 500,000 bump stocks in the United States would
refuse to turn them in despite the ban and related criminal penalties.
People caught in possession of bump stocks could face up to 10 years in
prison under the policy.
GOA will continue to fight the issue in the court system, as the case now
returns to the lower courts. We remain convinced that the courts will
consign this unlawful, unconstitutional ban to the trash bin of history,
where it belongs, Hammond said in a statement, using the groups acronym.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said the administration was pleased with
the high courts action.
Bump stocks use a guns recoil to bump its trigger, enabling a
semiautomatic weapon to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, which can
transform it into a machine gun. The Justice Departments regulation
followed the lead of many states and retailers that imposed stricter
limits on sales of guns and accessories after a deadly shooting at a
Florida high school in February 2018.
LAS VEGAS SHOOTING
Trump pledged to ban bump stocks soon after a gunman used them in a spree
that killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas. The
Justice Department on Dec. 18 announced plans to implement the policy on
March 26.
The FBI said in January it had found no clear motive for the 64-year-old
Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, in the deadliest mass shooting in
modern U.S. history.
In the Michigan case, a federal judge already has ruled in favor of the
administration. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals refused to put the ban on hold pending appeal. Other plaintiffs in
that case include the Gun Owners Foundation, the Virginia Citizens Defense
League and three individual gun owners.
In the Washington case, a federal judge also upheld the ban, prompting the
gun rights advocates to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit. That court has heard oral arguments but has
not yet ruled.
Those challenging the policy have argued that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks the authority to equate bump
stocks with machine guns. One of the laws at the center of the legal
dispute was written more than 80 years ago, when Congress restricted
access to machine guns during the heyday of American gangsters use of
tommy guns.
Trumps fellow Republicans typically oppose gun control measures and favor
of a broad interpretation of the right to bear arms promised in the U.S.
Constitutions Second Amendment. In 2017, there were 39,773 gun deaths in
the United States, according to the most recent U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention figures released in December.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President
Donald Trump a victory by rejecting for the second time in three days a
bid by gun rights activists to block his new ban on bump stock
attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly.
The policy, embraced by Trump in the wake of an October 2017 massacre in
Las Vegas in which bump stocks were used, went into effect on Tuesday. The
ban is a rare recent instance of gun control at the federal level in a
country that has experienced a succession of mass shootings.
The court in a brief order refused to grant a temporary stay sought by the
group Gun Owners of America and others in a lawsuit filed in Michigan
challenging the ban while litigation continues. Chief Justice John Roberts
on Tuesday rejected a similar bid to block the policy in a separate legal
challenge brought in Washington by individual gun owners and gun rights
groups including the Firearms Policy Foundation and Florida Carry Inc.
Michael Hammond, Gun Owners of Americas legislative counsel, said many
owners of the estimated 500,000 bump stocks in the United States would
refuse to turn them in despite the ban and related criminal penalties.
People caught in possession of bump stocks could face up to 10 years in
prison under the policy.
GOA will continue to fight the issue in the court system, as the case now
returns to the lower courts. We remain convinced that the courts will
consign this unlawful, unconstitutional ban to the trash bin of history,
where it belongs, Hammond said in a statement, using the groups acronym.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said the administration was pleased with
the high courts action.
Bump stocks use a guns recoil to bump its trigger, enabling a
semiautomatic weapon to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, which can
transform it into a machine gun. The Justice Departments regulation
followed the lead of many states and retailers that imposed stricter
limits on sales of guns and accessories after a deadly shooting at a
Florida high school in February 2018.
LAS VEGAS SHOOTING
Trump pledged to ban bump stocks soon after a gunman used them in a spree
that killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas. The
Justice Department on Dec. 18 announced plans to implement the policy on
March 26.
The FBI said in January it had found no clear motive for the 64-year-old
Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, in the deadliest mass shooting in
modern U.S. history.
In the Michigan case, a federal judge already has ruled in favor of the
administration. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals refused to put the ban on hold pending appeal. Other plaintiffs in
that case include the Gun Owners Foundation, the Virginia Citizens Defense
League and three individual gun owners.
In the Washington case, a federal judge also upheld the ban, prompting the
gun rights advocates to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit. That court has heard oral arguments but has
not yet ruled.
Those challenging the policy have argued that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks the authority to equate bump
stocks with machine guns. One of the laws at the center of the legal
dispute was written more than 80 years ago, when Congress restricted
access to machine guns during the heyday of American gangsters use of
tommy guns.
Trumps fellow Republicans typically oppose gun control measures and favor
of a broad interpretation of the right to bear arms promised in the U.S.
Constitutions Second Amendment. In 2017, there were 39,773 gun deaths in
the United States, according to the most recent U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention figures released in December.
--
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
The Obama-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
approved Uranium One in fall 2010. With a little luck, we'll see
compulsive liar Hillary Clinton in jail before she dies.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.