Lawyers for Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed an important brief with the United States Supreme Court in the case of Garland v. Cargill, which challenges the federal ban on bump-stock devices. The brief can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.
“FPC and our members have fiercely fought this unconstitutional and lawless executive abuse from the very beginning,” said FPC President Brandon Combs. “As our brief explains, bump-stock devices are not, and have never been, machine guns. The Supreme Court must affirm the decision below and make clear that not even the United States President can rewrite the laws Congress enacts.”
“When ATF first considered the legality of bump stocks over twenty years ago, it correctly concluded that they do not qualify as ‘machineguns,’” argues the brief. “Yet in 2018, in the face of acute political pressure, the agency reversed course and adopted a new definition of the term that encompasses the bump stocks at issue. Petitioners’ defense of that newfound interpretation either ignores the statute Congress enacted or seeks to rewrite it.”
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About Firearms Policy Coalition
Firearms Policy Coalition (firearmspolicy.org), a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization, exists to create a world of maximal human liberty, defend constitutional rights, advance individual liberty, and restore freedom. FPC’s efforts are focused on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and adjacent issues including freedom of speech, due process, unlawful searches and seizures, separation of powers, asset forfeitures, privacy, encryption, and limited government. The FPC team are next-generation advocates working to achieve the Organization’s strategic objectives through litigation, research, scholarly publications, amicus briefing, legislative and regulatory action, grassroots activism, education, outreach, and other programs.
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The bats can posture and lecture all they want to but no matter how loudly they screech the basic fact regarding ‘bump stocks’ is that it STILL takes a specific action by the wielder of a weapon so equipped to increase the rate of fire. Period.
On March 25th, 2019 I watched my AR-15 with a Bump Stock past the stroke of midnight. This was the date and time that the ATF said that a Bump Stock would magically convert the semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun !
It never happened. WHAT A RIP-OFF !
I own one of those stocks.. Never was interested in one… until someone told me I couldn’t have one. Maybe one day I’ll take it out of my “black site”. It was sent there unconstitutionally, without due process or the ability to object. The stock was mistreated with no recourse. I’m afraid of what it might do once it see’s the light of day. I hope it doesn’t commit “gun violence”
Every American has the right to full auto, select fire machine guns under the 2nd. The NFA and GCA are repugnant to the Constitution. And bump stocks can never be machine guns as machine guns are specifically defined in law. Increased rate of fire or approximating a rate of fire has nothing to do with the definition, and congress doesn’t have the legal power to outlaw machine guns, anyhow, as they admitted debating the NFA.
Undergoing a laminectomy to reduce the symptoms from stenosis.
court should send atf to dustbin of history