Hello everyone, Nick here. We got an episode on the Second Amendment today. I am

recording these words on Friday, June 14, 2024. On this day, just a few hours ago, the Supreme Court handed down their

decision in Garland v. Cargill.

Good morning, I'm Witt Johnson in New York.

We're coming on the air because the Supreme Court has just issued its ruling in a Second Amendment gun control case challenging the country's ban on bump stocks.

Those are the attachments.

Let me give you a little backstory to that case. In October 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, a man fired

more than 1,000 bullets into a festival crowd. He killed 60 people. He injured about 400 more. He did this in about 10 minutes.

Now, machine guns are not legal in the United States. You can't own one. And this has been the case since

1934 when Congress passed legislation banning machine guns in

the 1930s, right? Tommy guns, prohibition, organized crime, you've seen the movie.

Congress saw that certain guns were killing people and in response they passed a law banning them.

No machine guns, no grenades, etc.

So back to 2017, this mass murder was possible due to a device called a bump stock.

A bump stock is like a hundred bucks. Essentially what they do is they replace the butt of a

rifle and they use the recoil of a shot to fire a knife. the So in the wake of this horrific tragedy, the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,

they reclassified guns with bump stocks as machine guns and therefore illegal to own.

This action was done through an executive order by then President Donald Trump have his exact

tweet.

Quote, as I promised today the Department of Justice will issue the rule banned quote, that turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns."

End quote, end tweet.

So bump stocks were made illegal to own, and a lot of people who own them, destroyed

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