The Supreme Court ruled to strike down down a ban on so-called bump stocks, a device that increases the firepower of automatic weapons.
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TheSupremeCourtissuesanopinionontheSecondAmendment,rulingthatbumpstocksarenotmachineguns.FoxNewsShannonBreamandFoxNewscontributorAndyMcCarthybreakdownthedetailsofthelatestopinion.
TheU.S.SupremeCourtonThursday ruledthatabumpstockdoesnottransformafirearmintoanautomaticweapon,strikingdownafederalrulethatbannedbumpstocks.
Ina6-3decision,JusticeClarenceThomaswrote,“Congresshaslongrestrictedaccessto“‘machinegun[s],'”acategoryoffirearmsdefinedbytheabilityto“shoot,automaticallymorethanoneshot…byasinglefunctionofthetrigger.”
“Semiautomaticfirearms,whichrequireshooterstoreengagethetriggerforeveryshot,arenotmachineguns.Thiscaseaskswhetherabumpstock—anaccessoryforasemi-automaticriflethatallowstheshootertorapidlyreengagethetrigger(andthereforeachieveahighrateoffire)—convertstherifleintoa‘machinegun.’Weholdth
