I feel betrayed that a democrat administration pushed to repeal that ban.
I guess you can feel a little less betrayed.
Today, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled 6-3 under its conservative supermajority that a bump stock attachment does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun, which is prohibited under federal law. Under this decision, civilians now have access to bump stocks again.
That is, it sounds like the argument was over whether the ATF was granted authority by Congress under the GCA to issue such a ban, rather than whether the GCA passed constitutional muster.
I mean, okay, it has an impact, but it isn’t really on par with cases evaluating whether law is in conformance with the First Amendment.
I guess you can feel a little less betrayed.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-strikes-down-bump-stock-ban
Hmm.
I think that this isn’t actually of massive significance, looking at this summary:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2024/06/scotus_6-14.pdf
That is, it sounds like the argument was over whether the ATF was granted authority by Congress under the GCA to issue such a ban, rather than whether the GCA passed constitutional muster.
I mean, okay, it has an impact, but it isn’t really on par with cases evaluating whether law is in conformance with the First Amendment.
Either way, it certainly wasn’t a Democratic administration pushing for them to be unbanned.
Fair enough.