The gun accessory the Supreme Court ruled on allows a rifle to fire dozens of bullets within seconds. Some Houstonians ABC13 spoke to shared the sentiment that they disagree with the decision.
Chaz MillerHouston residents react to the Supreme Court's decision to reverse a 2019 ban on bump stocks used to modify firearms into semiautomatic weapons.is a significant development, you've been able to purchase them here since last year.
The big issue is whether or not a bump stock turns a semiautomatic weapon into a machine gun. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the court's opinion, said it does not.How bump stocks change the way semi-automatic weapons are fired Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a bump stock as a replacement stock for a semiautomatic rifle that enables it to fire much more rapidly.
"You have to pull the trigger every single time," he said, using a bump stock. "It's not an automatic gun like an M16 where you could pull the trigger, hold it, and it would continue to fire.""When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck," she said."If we already know it causes harm, I don't understand what you'd need to be doing with it," Nicole Lavrack said.
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