Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday June 15th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.4 | excerpt. Today the Supreme Court has ruled on bump stocks. Plus a look at how one mayor won't |
| 0:28.6 | celebrate pride and how the community is responding. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that devices that turn a semi-automatic rifle into something |
| 0:38.0 | closer to a machine gun are legal. |
| 0:41.1 | I spoke with USA Today Supreme Court correspondent Maureen Gropi to put the ruling in context. |
| 0:46.3 | Maureen, thanks for wrapping on. |
| 0:48.3 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:49.2 | So let's just start with this for folks who may not know what are bump stocks they are devices that |
| 0:55.4 | turn a semi-automatic rifle into something closer to a machine gun the bump stock |
| 1:00.8 | harnesses their recoil of the rifle to accelerate trigger poles, |
| 1:05.2 | technically bumping the trigger for each shot after it bounces off the shooter's shoulder. |
| 1:11.3 | When it does that, a rifle can fire 400 to 800 rounds a minute. |
| 1:15.0 | So what did this ruling from the High Court this week decide? |
| 1:18.0 | Well, the Supreme Court said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives was wrong when it said in 2018 that a bump stock met |
| 1:25.8 | the legal definition of a machine gun so could be banned. |
| 1:29.5 | And what led up to this decision? |
| 1:31.4 | The Trump administration classified bump stocks |
| 1:34.1 | as machine guns after the deadliest mass shooting |
| 1:37.0 | in the nation's history. |
| 1:38.5 | A gunman used bump stocks on some of his many weapons |
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