After a six-year hiatus, Slide Fire Solutions, the company that pioneered bump stock technology, has announced it is back in business following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the federal ban on bump stocks just a couple of months ago. The Texas-based, veteran-owned company was forced to shut down in 2018 when the government imposed … Read more
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step in reining in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) administrative overreach. The Court held in Garland v. Cargill that the agency exceeded its statutory authority by classifying semiautomatic rifles equipped with bump stocks as “machineguns” under the National Firearms Act of 1934 … Read more
Well, we knew this was coming. Barely had the echo of the gavel banging in the Supreme Court died down after the Court ruled 6-3 to strike down the Trump-era bump stock ban supported by Biden’s Justice Department, than a Democratic move in the Senate supported by anti-gun overlord Sen. Chuck Schumer attempted to pass … Read more
When the Supreme Court ruled the federal government’s Trump-era ban on bump stocks was overreach and struck the restriction down, it removed a shadow from many gun owners who likely still owned the devices, removing otherwise honest, law-abiding citizens from the possibility of being an unintentional felon. West Virginia defense attorney, Todd La Neve, who … Read more
News reports on the Supreme Court’s first day of oral arguments in the case of Garland v. Cargill with their line of questioning suggesting the court may be inclined to uphold the Trump-era ban on bump stocks by the ATF, but not yet fully signaling whether a majority of justices would eventually back such a … Read more
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the challenge by Michael Cargill in Garland v. Cargill. Cargill challenges that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) overstepped its authority when officials there published a final rule that criminalized the possession of bump stocks by classifying … Read more
I have written extensively on the subject of bump-fire stocks (or “bump-stock-type devices” (BSTD), as the ATF so charmingly refers to them), and why they matter beyond their suddenly being designated as “machineguns” or their uncompensated taking. Too extensively for some, who didn’t want “to die on Bump Stock Hill,” when we had other things … Read more
Australia is planning to ban the importation of bump stocks, and get its states and territories to ban them outright, too. Rapid-fire gun attachments set for ban Gun attachments which increase the firing speed of rifles, like those used in the Las Vegas massacre, are set to be banned in Australia. The federal government is … Read more
You know that bump stock ban that the Trump administration imposed upon Americans? As I’ve written before, I suspect the President knew the regulatory reclassification of these obscure accessories lacked enforceability in court. And now, sure enough, the ATF has admitted in court filings that it lacked the authority to ban bump stocks in the … Read more
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