Supreme Court agrees to hear case over ban on bump stocks for firearms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : A three-judge appeals court panel agreed with the district court's conclusion that bump stocks qualify as machine guns under federal law.
40% : "Despite ATF's previous assurances that federal law permitted possession of a bump stock, the Final Rule now brands as criminals all those who ever possessed a bump stock," the lawyers wrote.
39% : After determining that the National Firearms Act is ambiguous in two areas, the 5th Circuit concluded that a non-mechanical bump stock is not a machine gun under the law.
33% : Lawyers for Cargill are also urging the Supreme Court to take up the challenge to ATF's bump stock ban, arguing that the definition of machine gun under federal law is an issue "that affects many Americans.

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