What Are Bump Stocks All About?

Last week the Supreme Court gave the Trump campaign a quick and easy win by invalidating the ban on bump stocks that was put into effect by Trump after the mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay casino in 2017.

Trump declared that he ‘respected’ the Court’s decision, which along with his recent endorsement by the NRA, puts him in the driver’s seat when it comes to garnering the gun-nut vote.

The moment that decision was announced, Gun-nut Nation went on the offensive, sending out the usual broadsides about the terrible toll that America suffers from gun violence, and of course coupling their anger at the Supreme Court with the usual appeal for funds.

Taking a page from Star Wars, one of Trump’s staunchest critics, his niece Mary, called her uncle the ‘death candidate’ because he refused to challenge the Court’s decision, even though the bump stock ban was put into effect during the Trump Administration when even Trump himself had a brief moment when he felt that maybe gun violence had gone a bit too far.

What the majority said was that the bump stock ban was illegal because it represented an attempt by the government to use its regulatory authority to change a law which can only be done by Congress. And this Supreme Court, being conservative based, is always on the lookout for attempts by the government to expand its…