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The Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively legalize automatic weapons

Author:     Ian Millhiser
Source:     Vox
Publication Date:     Nov 3, 2023 | 2:05pm EDT
 Link: The Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively legalize automatic weapons
Stephan:  

Bump stocks. Do you even know what a bumpstock is, or what it does? The answer is it is a simple addition to any semi-automatic rifle and turns its into a machine gun that fires multiple rounds in seconds. Do I have to suggest what they would mean in the hundreds of mass killings we have each year in America? 18 dead could become 40 dead. This term the Supreme Court is going to decide if bumpstocks are legal. If they decide that bumpstocks are legal, expect the death rate of mass murders to go up by an order of magnitude or more.

Spent shells fly out of an AK-47 fitted with a bump stock. The bump stock is a device that allows a semiautomatic to fire at a rapid rate much like a fully automatic gun.
 Credit: George Frey/Getty

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear Garland v. Cargill, a case that could legalize a device that allows an ordinary (and legal) semiautomatic firearm to mimic a fully automatic machine gun that can spew multiple bullets every second.

Cargill involves bump stocks, devices that use a gun’s recoil to repeatedly pull its trigger, allowing the gun to fire as many as 90 bullets in just 10 seconds. Bump stocks cause a gun’s trigger to buck against the shooter’s finger while the gun’s recoil makes it jerk back and forth, “bumping” the trigger and causing it to fire again and again.

In 2017, a gunman opened fire on a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing 60 people and wounding hundreds more. One reason this shooting was so deadly is that the shooter used a […]

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