{"id":320271,"date":"2021-03-26T17:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=320271"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:15:24","slug":"second-amendment-activists-prevail-in-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-amendment-activists-prevail-in-federal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Amendment Activists Prevail in Federal Court\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecond-amendment-activists-prevail-in-federal-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=320271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3820.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A federal appeals court ruled against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) bump stock<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;ban and confiscation order on Thursday.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gun-Owners-of-America-v.-Garland-Bump-Stock-Victory.pdf\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ruled<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;the ATF improperly redefined bump stocks&nbsp;as machine guns in 2018, a move that effectively banned the devices in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting that killed dozens. The court ruled the ATF could not redefine the term without new legislation passed by Congress. The majority found bump stocks do not fit under the federal definition of a&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">machine gun<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Guns<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/guns\/second-amendment-activists-prevail-in-federal-court\/\"><strong>Second Amendment Activists Prevail in Federal Court&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/guns\/army-vet-plans-to-appeal-ninth-circuit-ruling-against-gun-carry\/\"><strong>Army Vet Plans to Appeal Ninth Circuit Ruling Against Gun Carry<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/guns\/biden-promises-executive-action-legislation-on-guns\/\"><strong>Biden Promises Executive Action, Legislation on Guns&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;We further hold that a bump stock cannot be classified as a&nbsp;machine gun&nbsp;because a bump stock does not enable a semiautomatic firearm to fire more than one shot each time the trigger is pulled,&#8221; the court said in the ruling.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ruling represents the first major win for gun-rights activists in the years-long fight over the bump stock<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;ban. It is the first time an appeals court has ruled against the ban and sets up a showdown that could end up at the Supreme Court.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, called the win an &#8220;important milestone&#8221; in defeating the ban. He said his group filed the case alongside Gun Owners of America, the Gun Owners Foundation, and three individual plaintiffs because the ATF redefining what is effectively a plastic stock as a functioning&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">machine gun<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;was a &#8220;fantasy.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;We had to have that victory,&#8221; Van Cleave said. &#8220;Somebody had to put a stop on the sequence of events that made no sense. We could not let that stand.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Under direction from&nbsp;then-president Donald Trump, the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/trump-doj-announces-bump-stock-ban-confiscation\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">ATF reversed itself<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;on the legality of&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">bump stocks,&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">which assist a shooter in making individual pulls of the trigger more quickly. The agency had previously ruled the devices do not fall under machine gun regulations in the National Firearms Act of 1934. The law defines machine guns as firearms that continually fire after a &#8220;single function of the trigger;&#8221; bump stock-equipped semi-automatic guns require the trigger to be pulled before each shot. The ATF decided the devices should be regulated as machine guns.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The agency&#8217;s reversal required that all bump stocks be registered with the federal government in order to be legal. But the ATF also ruled the devices were always machine guns and should have been registered when initially purchased. As a result, it became impossible to register the devices under the ATF&#8217;s new determination, and owners either had to turn them in, destroy them, or face potential federal felony charges if caught with them.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Since federal courts\u2014including&nbsp;the Supreme Court\u2014declined&nbsp;to issue stays against the ban before it went into effect in 2019, Van Cleave said much of the damage from the ban has already been done. There is no estimate for how many people turned in or destroyed their bump stocks but several manufacturers had to destroy their products and were subsequently bankrupted.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Van Cleave said the coalition of gun groups is continuing to fight the case to combat the possibility of similar actions from the ATF in the future. He said it is &#8220;clear that the government was making up an issue out of whole cloth&#8221; and the groups do not want to see a repeat. They are planning for an eventual fight at the highest level.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;We&#8217;d like to put it on the Supreme Court,&#8221; Van Cleave said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment on the decision. The case will now be sent back down to the lower court with orders to redo the trial.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court ruled against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) bump stock\u00a0ban and confiscation order on Thursday.\u00a0 The Sixth U.S. Circuit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311222,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3820.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Second Amendment Activists Prevail in Federal Court\u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3820.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Second Amendment Activists Prevail in Federal Court\u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}