Michigan bill would ban purchase and possession of 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.
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A new law in the US state of Michigan would ban the purchase and possession of so-called “bump stocks,” which increase the rate of fire of semi-automatic rifles, after the US Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on the devices.
Democratic Livonia State Senator Dayna Polehanki, who introduced the bill in the Michigan Senate, called banning bump stocks in the state “a matter of life and death.”
Earlier this month, the nation’s highest court struck down a federal ban on bump stocks imposed by former President Donald Trump’s administration after a gunman used the device to open fire on attendees at a Las Vegas music festival in 2017, the deadliest mass killing by a single gunman in U.S. history.
“Within minutes of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision being announced, I knew we had to act at the state level to protect our communities from further senseless gun violence,” Polehanki said in a statement.
According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization, 16 states and Washington, DC currently have laws banning bump stocks.
Bump stocks attached to semi-automatic rifles can fire several hundred rounds per minute.
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Polehanki’s bill comes after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed several gun safety measures introduced by Democratic state lawmakers last year, including expanding background checks, firearm storage requirements and a “red flag” law that allows judges to temporarily ban people who pose an imminent danger to themselves or others from owning a firearm.
Safer gun advocates welcomed the new laws, saying Michigan lawmakers could do more to curb gun violence in the state. Democratic state lawmakers have also introduced additional proposals that would raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm and impose a two-week waiting period between purchasing a firearm and receiving it.
State lawmakers are still working on drafting Michigan’s budget before the summer recess, so if they take up Polehankis’ bill, it likely won’t happen until after the summer recess. The bill has been referred to the Michigan Senate’s Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary and Public Safety.
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