Utah Man Will Get To Keep His Bump Stock…For Now

By Tom Knighton

The bump stock ban is stupid. However, it’s the law. More specifically, it will be on Tuesday.

On that day, anyone with a bump stock will be in violation of federal law. Not counting those attached to rifles lost in tragic boating accidents, that is.

Well, not anyone. One Utah man will be the exception. It seems he will be allowed to hold onto his bump stock while the rest of the country has to destroy or turn theirs in.

Come Tuesday, bump stock owners across the country will have to give up their firearm accessory or face the possibility of jail time and fines.

All of them, that is, except for at least one: noted Utah gun rights advocate and Utah Shooting Sports Council chairman Clark Aposhian.

A federal judge recently denied Aposhian’s attempt for an injunction that would allow him to keep his bump stock — a firearm attachment that modifies semi-automatic weapons to fire like a machine gun — until his lawsuit against Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was settled.

The lawsuit, filed in January, argues that banning the bump stock, which was used in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/07/16/i-think-about-it-every/" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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