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Erwin Chemerinsky: Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks

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Erwin Chemerinsky: Supreme Court went out of its way to ignore common sense on bump stocks

On Friday, the US Supreme Court once more narrowed the power of the government to protect the American people from gun violence. In a 6-3 decision, split along ideological lines, the justices invalidated a rule adopted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that prohibited a device, bump stocks, that effectively turns semiautomatic rifles into machine guns. Although the case involved the interpretation of a federal law and not the Second Amendment, it again shows us that the conservative majority on the court will protect gun rights and put lives in needless jeopardy.

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