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Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing, the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire cartridges in rapid succession. The legality of bump stocks in the United States came under question [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] following the 2017 Las Vegas shooting , in which 60 people were killed ...
The 1968 Gun Control Act defined “machine gun” to include accessories “for use in converting a weapon” into a machine gun, and the ATF concluded that bump stocks meet that definition.
When a person fires a semiautomatic weapon fitted with a bump stock, it uses the gun's recoil energy to rapidly and repeatedly bump the trigger against the shooter's finger. That allows the weapon to fire dozens of bullets in a matter of seconds. Bump stocks were invented in the early 2000s after the expiration of a 1994 ban targeting assault ...
A bump-stock-equipped semiautomatic rifle fires “automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. Because I, like Congress, call that a machinegun ...
A bump stock is a firearm accessory that allows a semi-automatic rifle to mimic the firing speed of a fully automatic weapon. ... Gun control groups call bump stocks a “unique danger to society
The Supreme Court is considering whether a device attached to a firearm can be banned under federal law as a machine gun — in this case a bump stock. A bump stock effectively turns a semi ...
Garland v. Cargill, 602 U.S. 406 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the classification of bump stocks as "machine guns" under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2018.
Bump stocks replace a semi-automatic rifle’s regular stock, the part of a gun that rests against the shoulder. The device lets shooters harness the recoil to mimic automatic firing if they hold ...