Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, plans to push for the legalization of rapid-fire weapon bump stocks on Tuesday following the Supreme Court’s rejection of a authorities agency’s effort to abolish the fatal devices used by mass murderers.
The Political Majority Leader may try to secure the party’s backing for a determine to outlaw semiautomatic weapons, which allow them to fire as many shots as machine guns.
A law passed by Congress may bypass the traditional court’s decision Friday that , the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms company overstepped its authority , by banning bump stocks after a shooter used them to eliminate 58 people at a 2017 Las Vegas country music festival.
” Bump stocks are very, very dangerous”, Schumer told the New York Daily News Monday. They” transform regular firearms into the kind of machine gun equivalent.”
Schumer continued,” This most recent decision to repeal the ban on deadly gun bump stocks, like the one that caused so many Las Vegas fatalities, risks public safety, public tragedies, and could cost human lives,” adding.
Former President Donald Trump approved the original ban and , harshly denounced bump stocks  , after the Vegas carnage.
The majority of Republicans and Democrats at the time were in favor of the move, which Schumer is highlighting.
” We hope our Republican colleagues will do so again”, Schumer said.
” We have to work to change this script, especially on gun violence”, Schumer said. ” Americans, they believe in common- sense gun safety. Making sure an evil person ca n’t gain access to a simple gun feature that turns a gun into an outright weapon of war in seconds is one of the most common- sense things.
But it’s far from clear , whether the GOP will go along , with Schumer’s proposal this time around.
One senator would be required to prevent the law from being passed without the consent of all senators. In the nearly evenly divided body, Schumer would need 60 votes to try to bring the law up later.
Even then, it would need to be approved by the Republican- controlled House of Representatives, a tall order when , the GOP is loath to give any political victory , to Democrats.
The Supreme Court voted 6- 3 along ideological lines to , undo the ATF ban on bump stocks, which the Biden administration strongly supported.
Right-wing Justice Samuel Alito argued in a concurring decision that Congress would have the authority to enact a ban if it wanted to expand the landmark 1934 National Firearms Act, which was passed in 1934 to regulate machine guns in response to widespread gang violence.
A gunman can fire up to hundreds of rounds with the use of bump stocks with a single pull of the trigger. But the , court ruled , that it is effectively no difference from a gunman with an unusually quick trigger finger.
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