Schumer Seeks Bill to Ban Bump Stocks After Supreme Court Ruling

Schumer called for legislation to outlaw bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a President Donald Trump-era ban on the gun accessory.

WASHINGTONโ€”Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on June 14 called for legislation to outlaw bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a President Donald Trump-era ban on the gun accessory.

A 6โ€“3 opinion by the high court found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority when it interpreted a federal firearms statute to outlaw the use of bump stocks. Bump stocks are attached to the butt end of a rifle, causing them to fire again by bumping against the finger on recoil.

โ€œAs I warned the Trump administration at the time, the only way to permanently close this loophole is through legislation. Senate Democrats are ready to pass legislation to ban bump stocks but we will need votes from Senate Republicans,โ€ Mr. Schumer said in a statement.

The ATF in 2018, with the support of President Trump, reversed its earlier position and declared bump stocks illegal in response to the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which a gunman used firearms equipped with bump stocks to fire multiple guns more rapidly, killing 60 and leaving hundreds wounded.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito filed a concurrence on June 14 that emphasized Congressโ€™s role. โ€œThere is a simple remedy for the disparate treatment of bump stocks and machineguns,โ€ he said. โ€œCongress can amend the lawโ€”and perhaps would have done so already if ATF had stuck with its earlier interpretation. Now that the situation is clear, Congress can act.โ€

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the Supreme Court decision โ€œdeeply disappointing.โ€ย 

โ€œTodayโ€™s ruling renews a call for Congress to enact further gun safety legislation,โ€ he wrote on X. 

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) echoed this, writing on X that the ruling was a โ€œdisgraceful decisionโ€ that โ€œwill result in the death of more Americans, especially children.โ€ย 

Some Republicans saw the ruling as a victory for Second Amendment rights. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said on June 16 that any legislation to ban bump stocks might violate the Second Amendment.

โ€œIt treads close to the line,โ€ Mr. Cotton told CNNโ€™s โ€œState of the Union.โ€

โ€œYouโ€™d want to look at the legislative language, but more than anything, what we need to do to stop crime in this country is to get tough on crime,โ€ he said.

Byย Stacy Robinson

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