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If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices.

The Trump administration, in a rare break from gun rights groups, quickly banned bump stocks after the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert that was the deadliest in U.S. history. In the ensuing years, gun rights groups challenged the underlying rationale that bump stocks are effectively machine guns — culminating in a legal fight now before the Supreme Court.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Eh... Washington State banned ALL semi-automatic center-fire rifles this year. Yeah, you read that correctly, all of them. So you can't even get a rifle, let alone a bump stock.

The Trump administration, in a rare break from gun rights groups, quickly banned bump stocks

Where do people keep getting this notion that trump is in favor of gun rights? He's on record saying that he prefers to take guns away extra-judicially, and his only legislation for firearms was to ban some. He's a tyrant, and like all tyrants, he does not want an armed populace.

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