lets go back to the first post of this thread...
The Supreme Court ruled against the bump stock ban, declaring that the BATF & Explosives exceeded it's authority when it banned the devices on the grounds that they convert otherwise legal semi-automatic weapons into illegal machine guns.
specifically, the firearms act of 1934 defines what is a machine gun...
Machine guns
"any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.
the above does not include bump stocks...
if we the people decide that firearms equipped with bump stocks are indeed machineguns, then we the people begin the process of changing the law, by lobbying our elected Congress to amend the firearms act of 1934 to include firearms equipped with bump stocks ...
other methods of banning bump stocks at the federal level, such as by executive decree or judicial ruling are clearly a violation of the constitution, where it clearly states that Congress has the sole power to make federal law...
federal executive branch agencies, such as the atf, only have the authority to enforce federal law and certainly do not have the power to amend federal law...
and the president has no authority to in effect amend federal law...
trumps advisers should have advised him of this fact...
perhaps they did...and he being trump ignored them in the name of expediency?
so here we are years later, with an issue that was resolved, but now it is unresolved because it was addressed so inappropriately...
but then, watts new?
Last edited by ed good; 06/19/24 02:51 PM.
