The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a stay in the challenge to a regulation that expands the definition of "machine guns" (which are illegal) to include "bump-stock-type devices" which make semi-automatic guns function like full automatics, i.e., machine guns. The petition, with the D.C. Circuit opinion attached, is here.
The order notes that Justices Thomas and Gorsuch would grant the stay. I suspect that their position may have more to do with antipathy to "Chevron deference" than sympathy with owners of bump stocks.
CJLF generally does not get involved in the gun-control fight. I really cannot fathom any legitimate reason for owning a bump stock, though.
I can think of one: Automatic weapons are fun as hell to fire.
While I support the ban from a substantive standpoint, I think the idea of causing a crime to be committed simply because the executive said so to be a bit problematic.
Kent Scheidegger doesn’t have to “fathom” my rights.