On Thursday, the US 10th Circuit Court issued a temporary stay on a pending federal bump stock ban that was scheduled to take place this week.  However, the temporary stay is only for one Utah man who brought the case.

Anyone who has read my previous articles knows that the bump stock ban is nothing more than an outright attack on the rights of American citizens.  It is also a post facto “law,” something the executive branch does not have constitutional authority to do.

Guns.com reports:

The stay comes in the case of Utah gun rights advocate W. Clark Aposhian, backed by the nonprofit New Civil Liberties Alliance, which takes issue with how government regulators moved to outlaw the devices last year. As such, it blocks enforcement, set to take effect on March 26, only against Aposhian while his case is in the courts.

“Today the Court of Appeals told the ATF that it could not rush through the bump stock ban without meaningful judicial review,” said Caleb Kruckenberg, NCLA’s litigation counsel, in a statement to Guns.com. “The Court understands the stakes and is refusing to let an innocent owner be declared a felon, as scheduled.”

The lawsuit, filed in January in a Salt Lake City U.S. District Court, challenges the proper role of administrative agencies– such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives– and whether their regulations may contradict a law passed by Congress, specifically the definition of a “machine gun” as set by lawmakers in 1934 and 1968. The case argues that ATF essentially rewrote the definition as set out by previous laws, something that was not in the agency’s power to do.

Guns.com adds:

Going back to 2017, regulators had researched federal law to determine if certain bump stock devices fall within the definition of “machine gun,” which led to President Trump last February to order the Department of Justice to craft regulations to “write out” the devices himself. Since then, the primary maker of bump stocks in the country stopped taking orders for the controversial devices, although they were still readily available from dealers until this week.

Attorneys for Aposhian further argue that the government is also retroactively punishing otherwise lawful purchasers of the devices– with punishable up to 10 years in federal prison for first-time offenders– who may not hear about the ban before it turns them into felons.

While U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish, a 2015 appointment by President Obama, turned away Aposhian’s request for an injunction on Wednesday, saying his case has “not shown a likelihood of success,” NCLA filed an emergency request to the 10th Circuit who granted the injunction. Both sides have until March 29 to file a further response with the court.

“The Court’s decision to stay the bump stock rule is an important recognition of the high stakes in this case,” noted NCLA. “While the order is limited, the Court recognizes that Mr. Aposhian has raised a substantial basis to question the rule’s validity.”

Several other cases have been filed, something that shouldn’t have to be done if those put in office actually read and understood the Constitution they swear to uphold.

While Guns.com estimates that about half a million bump stocks are in circulation, I would venture to say that number is probably at least three times that.

In either case, the action by the Trump ATF to ban the very things that they approved under the Obama administration, demonstrates that none of these people know a thing about the law, the Constitution in this matter.  Furthermore, I suggest that President Trump, if he was actually a friend of the Second Amendment, would have shot this down, but he supports it, along with unconstitutional red flag laws.

Banning bump stocks is not the job of the executive branch.  In fact, it’s not even the job of Congress, since the right of the people to keep and bear arms, and it’s implied any kind of arms, shall not be infringed.  See my previous article “All Federal Gun Laws Are Unconstitutional.”

Furthermore, if this ban is allowed to stand, it opens the door to ban every single semi-automatic weapon in the country.

If you have a bump stock, don’t turn it in.  Don’t comply with an unconstitutional usurpation by the executive branch that the Constitution never authorized to legislate for the citizens.

Article posted with permission from Freedom Outpost