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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to Bump Stock Ban
SCOTUS affirms the ATF’s bump stock ban. What it all means.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to the ATF’s 2018 bump stock ban. This effectively ends the courts as an avenue to overturn the ban under Gun Owners of America v. Garland.
What is a Bump Stock?
A bump stock is a stock installed into a semi-automatic rifle that allows for bump firing. This is the act of using the rifle’s recoil to fire rounds in rapid succession. While this does not make the weapon automatic, it simulates automatic fire enough to come close.
In such a setup, the stock assists by using the recoil to bump the trigger against the finger, rather than the finger manually pulling the trigger for each shot. The bump stock setup can allow one to fire more than 400 rounds in one minute.
Prior ATF classifications of the modern Slide Fire Solutions bump stock between 2008 and 2017 deemed it as an unregulated firearm part. SFS claimed their bump stock was a replacement stock for people who have limited hand mobility.
