Posted April 22, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File

The worst part about the bump stock ban, at least in some people’s minds, isn’t that the ban infringes on our Second Amendment rights, but that it also deprives owners of property without due process or compensation for that property. It created potential criminals with nothing more than the stroke of a pen.

Now, a lawsuit has been filed seeking to get compensation for those who have been deprived of their bump stocks.

While federal courts have upheld the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks, gun rights advocates are vowing to press forward in a separate legal battle to try to force the government to at least compensate them for their surrendered or destroyed property.

One of the co-founders of Texas-based RW Arms, which destroyed more than 70,000 bump stocks ahead of the effective date of the ban last month, said the company took an estimated hit of more than $20 million in the process.

“It is going to hurt us — about 40% of our company was in bump stock sales — but we’re going to continue on,” said RW Arms co-founder Mike Stewart.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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