Bump stocks not ‘machine guns’ and not subject to ATF ban, federal appeals court rules
A federal appeals court Thursday ruled that a federal regulation barring bump stocks is likely illegal and was incorrect in claiming that the devices make a weapon a machine gun.
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Has no effect on the northwest, but it does somewhat put the ATF in their place for clear overreach.
To summarize: The ATF has no authority to alter criminal law. "it is not the role of the executive — particularly the unelected administrative state — to dictate to the public what is right and what is wrong,"
The 6th Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision, the 2018 finding by BATF that bump stocks were machine guns, which reversed a 2010 finding on the same subject, was in error and the lower-court was wrong to refuse to issue an injunction against the regulation.
In the 2-1 decision, Judges Alice Batchelder and Eric Murphy ruled that the regulation alters criminal law and thus has to be done by Congress.