How to Use bump stock in a Sentence

bump stock

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• 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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024