Bumpstocks: Chief Justice says NO to stay

[spacemanvic]

One of our cases just got shut down

This is the same compromised bastard that stuck us with Obobo Care.

U.S. chief justice rejects bid to block 'bump stocks' gun ban

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday rejected a bid by gun rights activists to put on hold a ban by President Donald Trump’s administration on “bump stock” gun attachments that enable semi-automatic weapons to be fired rapidly.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has not yet acted on another similar request. The ban goes into effect on Tuesday but lower courts have yet to rule on an appeals brought by gun rights activists in Michigan and the U.S. capital.

Trump pledged to ban the devices soon after a gunman used them to shoot and kill 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas in October 2017. The Justice Department on Dec. 18 announced plans to implement the policy.

A Washington-based federal district court judge in February upheld the ban, prompting gun rights advocates to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That court heard oral arguments on Friday but has not yet ruled. The appeals court, however, say that the ban cannot go into effect in relation to the specific individuals and groups challenging it.

The action by Roberts concerned only the Washington case. The challengers in the Washington case include individual gun owners and gun rights groups such as the Firearms Policy Foundation and Florida Carry Inc.

In the Michigan case, a federal district court judge last week ruled in favor of the administration. The challengers include individuals and the gun rights group Gun Owners of America. The Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday refused to put the ban on hold pending appeal.

Sotomayor is now weighing an emergency request in that case.

On the day the administration announced plans to put the policy in place, gun rights advocates sued in federal court to challenge it. They have argued that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) lacks the authority to equate bump stocks with machine guns under decades-old law.

One of the laws at the center of the legal dispute was written more than 80 years ago, when Congress restricted access to machine guns during the heyday of American gangsters’ use of “tommy guns.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1R71N2

[PocketProtector]

Who to lose, Roberts or Ginsberg. There is little difference

[spacemanvic]

Hopefully Josh jumps in with some context?

[KPShooting]

Unelected tax bureaucrats have no authority to change the legal definition of a machine gun.

When's the protest? We going to occupy a Chipotle or lay down in the street during rush hour?

[eagleclaw]

This just goes to show that if a "assault weapons ban' or magazine limitation law every makes it to the supreme court under its current make up, we might be in for a big surprise and disappointment when they announce their decision.

[spacemanvic]

This just goes to show that if a "assault weapons ban' or magazine limitation law every makes it to the supreme court under its current make up, we might be in for a big surprise and disappointment when they announce their decision.

It may start out like this:
http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-t...00-bump-stocks

So our Republic ends in a plastic crunch...

[Bang]

Brains are devices. Some have wiring similar to others. The one in Robert's cranial vault is similar to that of a woman I had the displeasure of encountering years ago. She was the passenger in a car driven by a second woman who had a vehicular accident.

They had come into our PD regarding the matter. As usual, the passenger was the one with the mouth that made demands. They were at the shift commander's desk. Mouthy insisted that we all remove our guns from our holsters and drawer them because she hated the sight of a gun.

Mouthy was escorted to a waiting area, essentially locked out of the interior.

Point being, she was interfering with police business because of how she believed the world should be. Roberts has himself in a position of being able to interfere with the intent of the founders. That much power must be intoxicating, if that's the way you're wired.

[spacemanvic]

Brains are devices. Some have wiring similar to others. The one in Robert's cranial vault is similar to that of a woman I had the displeasure of encountering years ago. She was the passenger in a car driven by a second woman who had a vehicular accident.

They had come into our PD regarding the matter. As usual, the passenger was the one with the mouth that made demands. They were at the shift commander's desk. Mouthy insisted that we all remove our guns from our holsters and drawer them because she hated the sight of a gun.

Mouthy was escorted to a waiting area, essentially locked out of the interior.

Point being, she was interfering with police business because of how she believed the world should be. Roberts has himself in a position of being able to interfere with the intent of the founders. That much power must be intoxicating, if that's the way you're wired.

I’m bettin someone has pictures of Roberts in congress with sheep.

[eagleclaw]

It may start out like this:
http://www.fox4news.com/news/north-t...00-bump-stocks

So our Republic ends in a plastic crunch...

I suspect the retailers didn't have much of a choice. If they tried to destroy them on their own they would have been investigated/ questioned by the ATF demanding proof of same. Once they ATF got them, they most likely consulted with their propaganda ministry, I mean their public relations director and decided to use the opportunity to photograph the destruction of the collected bump stocks and use the photo as propaganda like they did in the article.

[Delkal]

They better hurry up with their rulings. In two days it won't matter anymore since everyone will have already turned the illegal stocks in