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\"\"<\/a>Will Trump Learn from Bump Stock Battering?<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard, June 18, 2024 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court last Friday struck down one of the most controversial gun control edicts in recent years. The ruling on bump stocks is being widely hailed as a victory for an expansive reading of the Second Amendment. But it is also a stark rebuke to Donald Trump\u2019s dictatorial tendencies and his Presidential Magic Felony Wand.<\/p>\n

On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds from his window in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas into a crowd attending a country music concert below. Sixty people were killed, and more than four-hundred wounded. Paddock was using a bump stock, an attachment to rifles that enables speedy scattershot fire.<\/p>\n

President Trump responded to the carnage by vowing that \u201cbump stocks are going to be gone.\u201d Trump declared, \u201cI\u2019m writing that [ban order] out myself. I don\u2019t care if Congress does it or not.\u201d Trump discovered a new constitutional loophole for topics that spur frenetic presidential tweets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bump stocks had not been used in any other mass shooting. Federal agencies had repeatedly ruled that bump stocks were unregulated firearm parts that did not convert semiautomatic weapons into machine guns, which are severely restricted by federal law. Gun owners purchased half a million bump stocks after the feds labeled them legal to possess. Regardless, Trump tweeted that \u201cwe will BAN all devices that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.\u201d Trump\u2019s edict would turn hundreds of thousands of peaceful gun owners into felons.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agency reclassified guns with bump stocks as illegal machine guns because \u201csuch devices allow a shooter of a semiautomatic firearm to initiate a continuous firing cycle with a single pull of the trigger.\u201d But that was not how bump stocks actually operate. Even Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a perennial gun control champion, admitted that the Trump administration\u2019s position \u201chinges on a dubious analysis claiming that bumping the trigger is not the same as pulling it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s power grab sparked plenty of judicial backlashes before Friday\u2019s high court ruling. In March 2021, a federal appeals court struck down the ban, ruling, \u201cIt is not the role of the executive\u2014particularly the unelected administrative state\u2014to dictate to the public what is right and what is wrong.\u201d A U.S. Navy\/Marine Corps Court of Appeals overturned a bump stock conviction based on \u201cthe instinctive distaste against men languishing in prison unless the lawmaker has clearly said they should.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, declared, \u201cA bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does.\u201d The court ruled that the ATF \u201cexceeded its statutory authority by issuing a Rule that classifies a bump stock as a \u2018machinegun.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who failed to destroy or surrender their bump stock faced a penalty of $250,000 and up to ten years in prison. The New Civil Liberties Alliance tweeted that Friday\u2019s \u201cdecision<\/span> comes too late to restore bump stocks to the hundreds of thousands of lawful owners who turned them in or destroyed them in response to ATF\u2019s unlawful and irresponsible rulemaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, a<\/span>fter the federal ban took effect, the ATF reported that \u201cless than 1% of gun owners turned in their bump stocks.\u201d However, many bump stocks were reportedly lost in boating accidents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court decision provoked fainting spells among the usual suspects. <\/span>New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin wailed, \u201cThe horrifying consequences of this ruling will be felt for decades to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court decision outraged many leftists who presumed that simply confirming that a gun is a firearm should suffice to banish it<\/strong>. \u201c<\/span>A recurring feature of right wing jurisprudence, especially in guns and abortion cases, is the use of minor semantic justifications to unleash unfathomable amounts of carnage and human suffering,\u201d declared Guardian<\/em> columnist Moira Donegan.<\/p>\n

Many liberals are prone to define \u201cautomatic weapon\u201d as \u201c<\/strong>any gun that fires too many bullets.\u201d<\/strong> As the Gun Owners of America commented on the decision, \u201c<\/span>This critical ruling protects your AR-15 from a tyrannical ATF ban. If bump stocks were machine guns, then all semiautomatic firearms could also have been banned as illegal machine guns. SCOTUS has now closed that door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justice Sandra Sotomayor, writing for the dissent, lamented: \u201c<\/span>Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands.\u201d Actually, the bump stocks had been there all along. The Washington Post<\/em> noted that law enforcement agencies did not use bump stocks because they made guns fire inaccurately. Sotomayor said the ban should have been upheld in order to stop gun owners\u2019 \u201cevasion\u201d of gun bans. By continuing to own guns, for instance?<\/p>\n

Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the bump stock ruling, \u201cThe Court has spoken and their decision should be respected.\u201d Her<\/span> statement also declared, \u201cJoe Biden wants to take that right [to keep and bear arms] away from law-abiding Americans. President Trump won\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

But stopping Biden from trampling the Second Amendment isn\u2019t enough: gun owners also need protection from Trump.<\/strong> After a 2018 school shooting, Trump announced, \u201cI like taking the guns early\u2026Take the guns first, go through due process second.\u201d With that line, Trump sounded like Biden even before Uncle Joe was led to a Delaware podium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Trump had plenty of decrees and proclamations during his presidency that justifiably spooked observers. In late 2017, Trump boasted of \u201can absolute right to do what I want to with the Justice Department.\u201d Shortly after Trump endorsed \u201c15 days to slow the spread\u201d and embraced a deluge of disastrous COVID policies, he proclaimed, \u201cThe federal government has absolute power. It has the power. As to whether or not I\u2019ll use that power, we\u2019ll see.\u201d Ironically, Trump was vilified by the media in 2020 for not behaving even more oppressively.<\/p>\n

President Biden is deriding Trump for \u201cechoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany\u201d and liberals are portraying the prospect of a second Trump presidency as the death of democracy. Trump can boost confidence in his constitutional fidelity by openly admitting and renouncing the constitutional abuses of his first term, including his bump stock ban. Admitting his fallibility might even endear him to voters who do not view him as the second coming of George Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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