President Joe Biden slammed the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a ban on bump stocks, saying, 'Americans should not have to live in fear of this mass devastation.'
“Americans should not have to live in fear of this mass devastation,” Biden said in a statement., which fell along ideological lines, found that the government overstepped its authority in banning bump stocks, a gun accessory that transforms a semiautomatic rifle into one that functions similarly to a machine gun.
Biden mentioned the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying the shooter used a weapon modified with a bump stock to fire more than 1,000 bullets in 10 minutes, killing 60 people and wounding hundreds more. “I nominated the first Senate-confirmed director of the ATF since 2015,” Biden continued. “My administration ensured that the ATF has the funding it needs to address emerging firearm technologies like machinegun conversion devices and ghost guns that pose a unique and acute threat to public safety.”“A semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger,’” Thomas wrote.
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