Gun control proponents tried and failed on Tuesday in their first attempt at legislatively banning bump stocks after the , U. S. Supreme Court struck down , a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( ATF ) that previously banned the firearm devices.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that the ATF’s law treating nudge companies like improper machinegun parts overstepped its authority to make decisions. Now that the devices have been banned, gun control advocates are hoping to use the congressional way following the high court’s ruling.
Sen. Martin Heinrich ( D- NM), on Tuesday, June 18, reintroduced a , bill , dubbed the” Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts Act” or BUMP Act. The costs would outlaw the purchase of nudge companies and any other “materially increases the rate of fire” of semi-automatic weapons. The National Firearms Act requires owners of semi-automatic firearms that have been modified to increase the rate of fire to keep them registered under the policy within 120 times of the president’s passage.
After federal authorities determined a second sniper carried out the mass shooting on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada using various weapons with bump stocks, some additional gun control advocates began lobbying for a knock share ban.
Heinrich touted republican assistance for his bill, noting purchase- in from more than 20 different Senators, including a second Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.
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” This is something that almost all Americans agree should be done,” Heinrich said on Tuesday. ” This should be a popular sense, republican, public safety vote that all of us may welcome if we believe that our children should have the freedom to feel secure in their church, school, or at a drama drama”.
The New Mexico Democrat echoed Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissention in her opposing viewpoint in Garland v. Cargill when introducing his expenses on the Senate floor. While the majority of the court’s panel concluded there were significant differences between machineguns and bump-fired semiautomatic weapons, Sotomayor said,” When I see a animal that walks like a bird, swims like a bird, and quacks like a bird, I call that bird a bird,” and the same rule does apply to a semiautomatic rifle that has a knock property equipped with a similar mechanism.
Heinrich sought a unanimous consent vote on his BUMP Act bill, but Sen. Pete Ricketts ( R- NE ) rose in objection, halting the effort. Ricketts claimed that the language in the bill’s introduction to a device that “materially increases the rate of fire” is written too ambiguously.
Either this rate of fire section was written by a writer who had no idea what they were talking about or it’s a cynical attempt to include more gun accessories than just bump stocks. I would bet the latter”, Ricketts said.
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Supporters of the BUMP Act will now be required to pass the legislation through a recorded vote. The bill faces more difficult odds in the Republican-controlled House, but it may receive enough support to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
This article was originally , published , by , FreeBase News , and is reprinted with permission.
