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This is precious little comfort to the people who spent their own time and money to invent, trademark, patent and market the bump-FIRE stock because the ATF's assinine ruling put them out of business.

US Appeals court rules bump stock devices are not ‘machine guns’

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that bump stock accessories cannot be considered “machine guns” and thus not subjected to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ban....


... “The district court erred by finding that the ATF’s Final Rule, which interpreted the meaning of a machine gun as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(b), was entitled to Chevron deference,” the 6th Circuit ruling said, in reversing the district court’s decision.

“And because we find that “single function of the trigger” refers to the mechanical process of the trigger, we further hold that a bump stock cannot be classified as a machine gun because a bump stock does not enable a semiautomatic firearm to fire more than one shot each time the trigger is pulled.”

The ruling comes two years after the ATF’s ban went into effect on March 26, 2019, illegalizing an estimated 500,000 bump stock accessories owned by Americans...


... The case was filed by Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), Matt Watkins, Tim Harmsen of the Military Arms Channel, and GOA’s Texas Director, Rachel Malone....



Notice that conspicuous in its absence from this list is the National Fucking Rifle Association. Which puts the lie to the claim that we have to excuse the NRA of its multitudinous transgressions because none of the lesser pro-2A/RKBA organizations can accomplish what they do.

But what was their contribution in this case? Bupkis.