A federal appeals court struck down a ban on bump stocks — a device that can be attached to a semiautomatic firearm enabling it to rapidly fire bullets.
ban was instated following a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, where a gunman killed dozens of people and injured hundreds of others from his hotel room using weapons equipped with bump stocks.Those against the ban argued that bump stocks do not fall under the definition of illegal machine guns in federal law.
But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says they do, a position the Biden administration agrees on, per AP."A plain reading of the statutory language, paired with close consideration of the mechanics of a semi-automatic firearm, reveals that a bump stock is excluded from the technical definition of ‘machinegun’ set forth in the Gun Control Act and National Firearms Act," Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod wrote in the opinion.
The definition of "machine gun" does not apply to bump stocks, the opinion goes on to say. "And if there were any doubt as to this conclusion, we conclude that the statutory definition is ambiguous, at the very least."
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