Sen. Dick Durbin (D) called for a ban on bump stocks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
local news live reported Durbin said he framed the bump stock ban as a way to respond to the Supreme Court's June 14, 2024 ruling that struck down the ATF's bump stock ban.
Breitbart News points out that the SCOTUS majority opinion in the bump stock case was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, and the ATF's attempt to expand the definition of machine gun to include bump stocks He pointed out that it was a failure.
Semi-automatic guns, which require the shooter to re-pull the trigger each time they fire, are not machine guns. The lawsuit asks whether a bump stock, an accessory on semi-automatic rifles that allows the shooter to quickly re-pull the trigger (thus achieving a high rate of fire), turns the rifle into a “machine gun.” . We think not…
forbes published In a video of the Judiciary Committee hearing, Durbin pointed to the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas shooting to justify pushing for a bump stock ban. He hopes Congress will pass legislation that would update the Gun Control Act of 1968 to include bump stocks on machine guns as defined by the law.
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