In a 13-3 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said that despite "tremendous" public pressure to impose a ban, it was up to the U.S. Congress rather than the president to take action.
One of the dissenting judges, Circuit Judge Stephen Higginson, wrote that the majority employed reasoning "to legalize an instrument of mass murder." Though gun restrictions are often championed by Democrats, Trump's Republican administration imposed the ban on bump stocks after a gunman used them in killing 58 people at an October 2017 country music concert in Las Vegas.
In December 2021, a three-judge 5th Circuit panel had upheld the ban and ruled against Michael Cargill, a Texas gun owner who opposed it.
Because of course they do.
US Appeals Court:💩
More mass murder. Nothing more American than that.
The decision reads, in its entirety 'MOAR GUNZ.'
On the top ...Fennec's kick or...? 🤣🤓🤣🤓Live from Call of DUTY 2.0 Warzone
Laws are a reflection of the popular opinion - or in this case they are not.
Anyone can shoot a gun without the 'Bump stocks'
EmbryEthan Conservatives WANT our streets bloody and our families paralyzed by grief.
In other news a 6 year old shoots his teacher. America is broken.
Que the next mass shooting
This is where civilization has left the US behind because Americans have a carnal need to be able to kill that the rest of us left back in WWII. Who needs almost machine gun capability to defend their home? You'll kill your own kids trying to get the bad guy.
EmbryEthan This is America. Guns in my area.
Why?
Bump stocks are fun but absolutely useless in any meaningful way. This picture is missing a piece, just sayin
The people can't rely on Congress because too many have been bought by the gun lobby.
is that were the gun can fire on fully automatic, is that right.
Outrageous
Wouldn't want to jeopardize a next mass shooting record...
seriously? No one needs a bump stock, come on
Guns and America…. Ridiculous. 🌹needs more….. 💐🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🥀 less guns…..
This reads like fuckin gibberish to normal countries deadset.
Insane. How can we allow this?
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I don't get it - is removing the adjustable stock meant to do what... ?
Great….make a law and then take it away. I’m guessing it will take loads of people dying to this in order to make it stick?
...somehow FIFA had no issues with having the World Cup in that country!
Wouldn’t want to upset the fetishists
All gun control is unconstitutional. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
“But it can’t fire like a fully auto…” Here’s a first-timer proving otherwise.
Great news for freedom!
Insanity reigns from the judiciary to the blood-soaked streets.
Most of the judges in the majority were appointed by Republican presidents, while the dissenting judges were appointed by Democratic presidents. Says all, NRA supporters, this was implemented after the Las Vegas mass shooting.
Pretty reasonable decision to me since lawmaking is the job of Congress, not the President. Doesn’t matter how popular the decree, ruling by fiat is wrong.
6 years old.
It's hypocrisy. You either allow correctly designed sturdy and safe(in context) automatic weapons or you make them illegal for personal use. Allowing this piece of every cheapening plastic to dictate what safe gun usage entails is laughable.
Of course, it’s a fundamental human right to fire your freedom AR-15 wildly into the air 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Naturally it's the 5th Circuit. They've gone completely off the rails in pursuit of judicial right-wing activism.
Of course they did, again proving the US is one f*cked up country.
Well it's not a machine gun by definition, so makes sense to me.
As much as I don't like the fact that these devices are basically a form of cheating, US law is US law and banning these things does constitute a violation of US law.
Back in business
Good!
We just can’t do anything right.
People hunting devices for everyone!
Let’s hope they have plenty “Hopes and Prayers”*, as they’ll need loads more in 2023 (again). * The standard response to the regular mass shootings in the US.
Meanwhile 6 yr old boy intentionally shoots his teacher at school. Second amendment in all it's glory here.
American Gun Lobby gone mad. WTF.
Yes, this is great news for all those victims. Jesus effing Christ!
Can we talk about how the fire rate of the guns used in the Vegas shooting match a belt fed weapon that wasn't found in the hotel room of the supposed shooter and neither were any spent casings?
WTF.
Bump stocks are also mentioned by the founders? They must have been smart
Because it isn't possible to make eight inches of polyurethane foam illegal.
Good news for constitutional rights!
......1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding at least 413..... No one needs that ability....
Automatic for the people.
White rubber room potential exponents.
What? Crazy!
A country of savages
Where in the Constitution does it mention bump stocks?
If you read the article it struck down because Congress needs to write the law, not Trump. Democrats controlled Congress for past 4 years and both Trump and Biden would have signed up but they did nothing.
Lol. This country:
Good! It’s a piece of plastic
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Not guns
oh great we can all die faster now.
Lol, lib cucks think they’re changing laws, but these things always get overturned by big money
Automatic weapons should be unbanned as well, not just addons like this that give you a more cumbersome and less rapidfire version of real automatic.
Good to see fascist Trump policy struck down.
Why? Who needs a bump stock? Paid for by the NRA