If the Supreme Court rules that bump stocks aren’t machine guns later this summer, it could quickly open an unfettered marketplace of newer, more powerful rapid-fire devices.
The Trump administration, in a rare break from gun rights groups, quickly banned bump stocks after the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert that was the deadliest in U.S. history. In the ensuing years, gun rights groups challenged the underlying rationale that bump stocks are effectively machine guns — culminating in a legal fight now before the Supreme Court.
I don’t even understand the appeal to a bump stock. From my understanding of the way they work, it seems that they wouldn’t be any faster than rapidly pulling the trigger on a semi-automatic, and it seems that you would lose all of your aiming precision going through the bumping motion.
Well, you lose aiming precision in full auto regardless. :)
But, yeah, it’s using the recoil energy to continue pulling the trigger.