Gun Activist Asks Appeals Court to Block Bump Stock Ban
…Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, arguing for plaintiff Michael Cargill, told the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that the prohibition relied on a flawed decision to classify a bump stock as a machine gun under federal law. A bump stock, he said, is not a machine gun because a shooter must continuously pull back on the trigger and push forward on the barrel to fire rapidly…
…Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, arguing for plaintiff Michael Cargill, told the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that the prohibition relied on a flawed decision to classify a bump stock as a machine gun under federal law. A bump stock, he said, is not a machine gun because a shooter must continuously pull back on the trigger and push forward on the barrel to fire rapidly…Read the full article
September 13, 2022
Originally Published in Reuters