Michigan Capitol | Getty Images Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal rule that essentially banned bump stocks for semi automatic rifles, a Michigan lawmaker has introduced a bill to specifically ban the devices in Michigan. State Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia) on Tuesday introduced Senate Bill 942, which aims […]
The new COVID-19 subvariants collectively nicknamed FLiRT are continuing to increase their dominance nationwide, fueling a rise in cases in Los Angeles County and growth in the coronavirus levels seen in California wastewater. Taken together, the data point to a coronavirus resurgence in the Golden State — one that, while not wholly unexpected given the […]
The Supreme Court last week struck down a federal ban on bump stocks, but some Virginia legislators say the debate isn’t over. “We will continue talking about it,” said U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, speaking Thursday at a virtual news conference. “The bump stock ruling by the Supreme Court was more about that you couldn’t do […]
Jun. 18—U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich led the charge Tuesday for a ban on bump stocks, saying the gun accessory is nothing more than a deadly device tailor-made for mass shootings. “I know there are those who say, ‘Guns don’t kill people; people kill people,’ ” Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, said on the Senate […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of his party, effectively stalling the bill. Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought “unanimous consent” to pass his BUMP Act […]
Bump stock devices were relatively obscure to the American public, right up until 2017, when a gunman in Las Vegas was able to use a bump stock to kill several dozen people and injure several hundred more in one of the worst mass shootings in our history. The public quickly came to realize that bump […]
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans this week ruled out a new ban on bump stocks, ensuring America’s market for the accessory that can effectively turn semi-automatic weapons into machine guns will remain open for the foreseeable future. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will seek unanimous consent to pass a bill banning bump stocks on the Senate floor […]
Political ripples from the supreme court’s decision to overturn a Trump White House-era ban on sales of “bump stocks” – a spring-loaded stock that uses recoil to in effect turn a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun – continued to radiate on Monday when Jacky Rosen took exception to comments on the issue made by […]
A 7.62X39mm round sits next a a 30-round magazine and an AK-47 with a bump stock installed at Good Guys Gun and Range in Orem, Utah, on Feb. 21, 2018. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down a 2018 rule to ban bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire at a rapid rate […]
Attacks on religious symbols are acts of hate New City, N.Y.: Sadly, the recent attack on items of veneration at St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, where statues of Mother Teresa and Pope John XXIII were defaced with a hammer, highlights the double standard of outrage by city and state officials when crimes target […]
It was two years ago this week when Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices issued a radical ruling on gun policy, striking down a New York law that required residents to apply for a state permit and show “proper cause” to carry a concealed gun in public. Among the questions that emerged soon after was how much […]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Around an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a ban on bump stocks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrongly said a gunman who carried out a racist massacre in her hometown of Buffalo had used the gun accessory that can allow semiautomatic rifles to shoot as fast as a machine […]