If Congress wants to ban bump stock they should pass a law that does so.
decision. The Supreme Court invalidated federal law that restricted gun ownership, therefore this must have been a Second Amendment decision.
Almost 90 years ago, in response to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and other mob violence, Congress passed the National Firearms Act. which, among other things, restricted access to “machineguns,” which the legislation defined as any weapon with the ability to “shoot, automatically more than one shot … by a single function of the trigger.”
Unfortunately, Sotomayor then continues, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.” She reasons that since a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock can fire like a machine gun, it should be considered a machine gun under the law.
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