Growing Legal Pushback Against ATF’s Rules On Bump Stocks, Receivers

Is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives overstepping its bounds in banning bump stocks? Is the agency wrongly defining lower receivers for AR-15’s as “firearms,” and if so, what does it mean for hundreds if not thousands of cases decided over the past 50 years?

These are some pretty big questions, and we try to tackle them on today’s Cam & Co. with the help of Caleb Kruckenberg of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing Utah resident Clark Aposhian in his bid to overturn an ATF rule retroactively banning bump stocks after the agency had, for several years, determined that the items were lawful.

Watch the full video here.

February 14, 2020