Class action lawsuit filed against Maryland’s ban on bump stocks, binary triggers

By Chris Eger

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, seen here at an April press conference, signed a broad ban on bump stocks and similar devices into law earlier this year. (Photo: Joe Andrucyk/Office of the Governor)
Four gun owners who possess devices termed “rapid fire trigger activators” under a looming new law in Maryland are taking the state to federal court.
The class-action lawsuit, filed Monday against Gov. Larry Hogan in his official capacity, argues that the ban he signed into law in April is illegal when compared against both the U.S. and state constitutions. Maryland’s law regulating rapid fire trigger activators– defined as bump stocks, binary trigger systems, burst triggers and trigger cranks– is set to go into effect in October. The plaintiffs in the suit–Paul Mark Brockman, Robert and Caroline Brunger, and David Orlin– all own one or more devices subject to the pending ban.
The challenge is backed by Maryland Shall Issue and takes the state to task on several legal points.
First, they argue that a mandatory surrender of their devices without any compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment as well as protections offered by the Maryland Constitution. Next, the lawsuit attacks that the only promise of legal ownership, that of

Source: Guns.com