Legal Opinion
Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 2020No. 19-296Relating-toCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of Justice GORSUCH.
Does owning a bump stock expose a citizen to a decade in federal prison? For years, the government didn't think so. But recently the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives changed its mind. Now, according to a new interpretive rule from the agency, owning a bump stock is forbidden by a longstanding federal statute that outlaws the "possession [of] a machinegun." 26 U.S.C. § 5685 (b), 18 U.S.C. § 924 (a)(2). Whether bump stocks can be fairly reclassified and effectively outlawed as machineguns under existing statutory definitions, I do not know and…
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