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The bump stock ban was triggered by the deadliest mass shooting
by one person in U.S. history when 60 people were killed in Las
Vegas. The shooter used a bump stock.
The nation's highest court stated that bump stocks do not
transform a firearm into an automatic weapon. The justices ruled
that the ATF exceeded its authority when it classified bump
stocks as machine guns.
The Gun Violence Prevention PAC Illinois released the following
statement from President and CEO Kathleen Sances in response to
the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the
ban on dangerous bump stocks is a step in the wrong direction in
our mission to end gun violence and protect Americans from more
mass shooting tragedies. Congress must now act to address the
bump stock ban at the federal level to extend the protections we
have in Illinois to all Americans.”
The National Rifle Association (NRA) applauded the ruling, and
said the decision will be pivotal to NRA’s challenges of ATF
regulations.
Pritzker said Illinois lawmakers need not take action but
elsewhere is a different story.
“I do think it's going to spur action at the state level as well
as the federal level to try to once again ban bump stocks,” said
Pritzker. “Here in Illinois we’ve already done that, we do not
need to take action to fill in what the Supreme Court has taken
away from other states.”
In 2018, President Donald Trump directed the Attorney General to
“dedicate all available resources” to propose a rule to ban all
devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. Following the
high court’s ruling, his campaign issued a statement.
"The Court has spoken and their decision should be respected,"
said Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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