Mayor Cherelle Parker signs public safety related bills during a ceremony in April. She is joined by Councilmembers Jeffery Young, Jr., Mike Driscoll, Jim Harrity, Quetcy Lozada, and Curtis Jones, Jr. On Tuesday, she signed legislation outlawing bump stocks in the city.The local ban takes effect immediately and bars anyone in Philadelphia from manufacturing or buying devices that are designed to accelerate how fast a semi-automatic gun can fire.
In the court’s majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that while a rifle outfitted with a bump stock can fire at a speed rivaling automatic weapons — which are illegal for civilians to possess — it is “not a ‘machine gun’ because it cannot fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.’”banning bump stocks up for a vote as early as Tuesday, saying it would return the country to the status quo set under Trump, a Republican.