{"id":336945,"date":"2021-03-28T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=336945"},"modified":"2021-03-28T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:30:35","slug":"federal-court-places-trumps-bump-stock-ban-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-places-trumps-bump-stock-ban-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Places Trump\u2019s Bump Stock Ban On Hold"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ffederal-court-places-trumps-bump-stock-ban-on-hold%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=336945&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-4145.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals placed a hold on a federal ban on bump stocks on Thursday, ruling that the Trump-era regulation may be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges on the Sixth Circuit decided 2-1 that former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration likely violated the Constitution when it banned bump stocks in February 2018. Trump issued an executive order banning \u201call devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns\u201d following a mass shooting in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump\u2019s executive order, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) reinterpreted federal law that generally bans public ownership of machine guns. A machine gun under federal law is defined as any weapon that can automatically fire more than one shot per single pull of the trigger.<\/p>\n<p>The ATF reinterpreted the terms \u201csingle function of the trigger\u201d and \u201cautomatically\u201d to make bump stocks illegal under existing federal law, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/federal-bump-stock-ban-blocked-by-divided-appeals-court\">Bloomberg Law<\/a>. A bump stock is a device that can be used with a semi-automatic rifle to mimic an automatic weapon. Such a device was used in the Las Vegas shooting in which 58 people were murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Gun Owners of America and several other groups sued the federal government over the reinterpretation of the statute. The Sixth Circuit panel ruled that the ATF likely overstepped its authority by reinterpreting a criminal statute and said the lower court handling the case should have granted the petitioners\u2019 request for a temporary injunction.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixth Circuit said that the legal precedent used by the ATF to reinterpret the statute, known as Chevron deference, likely does not apply in reinterpreting criminal conduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether ownership of a bump-stock device should be criminally punished is a question for our society. Indeed, the Las Vegas shooting sparked an intense national debate on the benefits and risks of bump-stock ownership,\u201d the judges wrote in the majority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/desktop\/document\/GunOwnersofAmericaIncetalvMerrickGarlandetalDocketNo19012986thCir?1616769837\">opinion<\/a>. \u201cAnd because criminal laws are rooted in the community, the people determine for themselves \u2014 through their legislators \u2014 what is right or wrong. The executive enforces those determinations. It is not the role of the executive \u2014 particularly the unelected administrative state \u2014 to dictate to the public what is right and what is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sum, for criminal statutes, where the primary question is what conduct should be condemned and punished, the first rationale of Chevron deference \u2014 deferring to an agency\u2019s expertise \u2014 is unconvincing because the agency\u2019s technical specialized knowledge does not assist in making the value-laden judgment underlying our criminal laws,\u201d the judges wrote. \u201cThat judgment is reserved to the people through their duly elected representatives in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-calls-ban-bump-stocks-amanda-prestigiacomo\">ordered<\/a> the ban on bump stocks on Feb. 20, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, I directed the attorney general to clarify whether certain bump stock devices like the one used in Las Vegas are illegal under current law,\u201d Trump said at the time. \u201cThat process began in December, and just a few moments ago, I signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. I expect that these critical regulations will be finalized, [by Attorney General Jeff Sessions], very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key in all of these efforts, as I said in my remarks the day after the shooting, is that we cannot merely take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference, we must actually make a difference,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe must move past cliches and tired debates and focus on evidence-based solutions and security measures that actually work and that make it easier for women of law enforcement to protect our children and to protect our safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-gun-dealer-sues-feds-after-being-forced-josh-hammer\">Texas Gun Dealer Sues Feds After Being Forced To Destroy 73,000 \u2018Bump Stocks\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals placed a hold on a federal ban on bump stocks on Thursday, ruling that the Trump-era regulation may be unconstitutional.A panel of judges on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311287,"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-4145.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Federal Court Places Trump\u2019s Bump Stock Ban On Hold","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336945","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-4145.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Federal Court Places Trump\u2019s Bump Stock Ban On Hold","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336945","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=336945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}