WTVBAM By Andrew Chung 4/7/2023
President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling against a federal ban on “bump stock” devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
The administration is defending the ban, imposed under former President Donald Trump, against a challenge by Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas. The ban was a rare firearms control measure in the United States prompted by a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
In January, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Cargill, concluding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a U.S. Justice Department agency, impermissibly reclassified bump stocks as machine guns, which are forbidden under U.S. law.
That decision “threatens significant harm to public safety,” the Justice Department said in its appeal on Friday. “Bump stocks allow a shooter to fire hundreds of bullets a minute by a single pull of the trigger. Like other machine guns, rifles modified with bump stocks are exceedingly dangerous.”
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