Supreme Court Rejects Bump Stock Bid

By Tom Knighton

It was a sort of last-ditch effort. Gun rights activists were desperate to try and block the Trump administration’s decision to reclassify bump stocks as machine guns. The idea was to get the United States Supreme Court to issue a stay.

Unfortunately, it failed.

The Supreme Court rejected another last-ditch bid to stop the Trump administration’s bump stock ban, denying a gun rights coalition a temporary exemption from the new regulation early Friday afternoon.

Friday’s order was the third application relating to the bump stock ban that the Supreme Court has rejected in recent weeks.

The plaintiffs in Friday’s case were five individuals and three gun rights organizations, including the Firearms Policy Foundation, the Madison Society Foundation, and Florida Carry. They sought a temporary reprieve from the ban for themselves and their members.

“Absent a stay, applicants and their members will be required to surrender or destroy their property or face felony charges for possession of devices that were unquestionably legal under ATF’s construction of the statute for the past 85 years and ATF’s prior written rulings stating as much,” their petition reads.

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The Supreme Court has separately dismissed two other …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms