How to Use bump stock in a Sentence

bump stock

noun
  • The Supreme Court is deeply torn about whether bump stocks are legal.
    USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Guest opinion: The Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
  • The federal rule made possession of a bump stock a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
    Cnn, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • Those challenging the Trump rule on bump stocks point out that the ATF hasn't always equated bump stocks with machine guns.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Supreme Court leans in favor of upholding a ban on bump stocks that enable rifles to work like machine guns.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Congress must unite to enact a permanent ban on bump stocks.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 17 June 2024
  • After that mass shooting, many bump stock owners saw a ban coming.
    Martin Kaste, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • Legislators also banned bump stocks, which had been used in the 2017 shooting.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The rule ordered owners of bump stocks to destroy them or surrender them within 90 days.
    Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
  • And so the question remains in the wake of Friday’s 6-3 ruling striking down a federal ban on bump stocks: What happens next?
    Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2024
  • Because this case does not involve the 2nd Amendment, Congress could adopt a law prohibiting bump stocks.
    Erwin Chemerinsky, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
  • Since 1934, federal law has banned machines guns, but there has been dispute over whether a bump stock can be outlawed as a type of machine gun.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Even if the Supreme Court overturns the regulation, bump stocks would still not be available nationwide.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But the justices ruled 6-3 that the 5th Circuit was correct to overturn a Trump-era regulation banning bump stock devices.
    Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Just last month, the high court struck down a federal ban on bump stocks — an accessory that allows gunmen to fire off rounds much more rapidly, and which were used in the Vegas shooting.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024
  • The question before the court was whether a bump stock converted a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • The court last week struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, devices that turn a semi-automatic rifle into something closer to a machine gun.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • At issue was whether bump stocks fell within those definitions.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 2 July 2024
  • The state House this summer also passed a bill that would have banned bump stocks and other rapid-fire modification devices, but it, too, was rejected by the Maine Senate.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Both these guns and accessories that convert other guns into them are banned, which makes the bump stocks unlawful under federal law.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 17 June 2024
  • Proposals that focused on school security and banning bump stocks failed in 2019.
    David Sharp, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That case was based on whether the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms had correctly applied the law’s technical definition of a machine gun to a bump stock.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 7 July 2024
  • The case hinges on whether bump stocks convert semiautomatic rifles into machine guns.
    Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The House will also consider two separate bills approved by the Senate that lengthen waiting periods for gun purchases and a ban on bump stocks.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Lawmakers also raised the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 and turned the ownership of bump stocks, which could make a semiautomatic rifle fire more rapidly, into a felony.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • In the other major case involving guns this year, the Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, a device that lets a shooter fire a semi-automatic rifle more like a machine gun.
    Bart Jansen, The Courier-Journal, 21 June 2024
  • After all, the technical legal issue before the court was not the Second Amendment and gun rights but rather a question of statutory meaning: do guns modified with bump stocks count as machine guns?
    Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • And just last week, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion that struck down a ban on bump stocks, or semiautomatic weapon enhancers, adopted during the Trump administration.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
  • The government stresses the lethality of semiautomatic weapons when they are modified by bump stocks.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Trump's administration banned bump stocks after a gunman used the devices in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas in 2017.
    Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 2 July 2024

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