Milwaukee City Council calls for legislative action to ban bump stocks
Supreme Court overturns ban on bump stocks
The Supreme Court overturned a Trump-era ban on “bump stocks,” a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
Fox – Seattle
The Milwaukee City Council on Tuesday supported lobbying lawmakers to ban “bump stocks” on firearms, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned a Trump-era ban on the devices that transform a semi-automatic rifle into something more like a machine gun.
The move comes less than two weeks before the Republican National Convention begins in downtown Milwaukee. State law prohibits the city from banning guns in the immediate vicinity of the four-day convention, where former President Donald Trump will formally accept the party’s nomination for a second term in the White House.
“This is a terrible threat to public safety and I urge the state legislature to come together and take immediate action. Otherwise, we are putting our residents and guests in real danger,” said Ald. Scott Spiker, the measure’s lead sponsor.
He called on the state Senate and Assembly to reconvene to “loosen our hands” and allow the city to ban bump stocks.
“This is part of a broader discussion about local control,” he said.
All other members present at Tuesday’s City Council meeting supported the city’s legislation, which expresses the city’s support for state and federal legislation banning bump stocks and puts the implementation of such a ban on the city’s lobbying agenda at the state level.
The city administration criticizes the Supreme Court’s decision, saying it is based on “a novel, twisted and convoluted definition of the term ‘machine gun’ that circumvents the intent of Congress, fidelity to the word and common sense.”
Last month, in an ideological decision, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the federal government had wrongly classified bump stocks as machine guns.
The devices, which use the rifle’s recoil to speed up the trigger pull, allow it to fire 400 to 800 rounds per minute, USA TODAY reported.
The Trump 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.
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